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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3763832, member: 112"]Not at all strange. First off, and I've posted about this many times, when knowledgeable people are doing the bidding it's extremely common for some examples of same coin (date/mint), same TPG/same grade, - and all in the same auction - to sell for multiples of what others sell for. Typically this is due to differences in the coins as in one or more being noticeably nicer than the others. But not always, sometimes it's due to a particular variety being in the mix. A variety that may or may not be noticed by other bidders. In this particular case you've got 9 coins total. But if you look at the two that brought the highest prices, $6600 and $5280, they are both of the same variety as denoted by the die scratches. But the one is just a bit nicer than the other, thus the higher price. The other 7 coins, you've got 3 that are in the same ballpark price wise, and 4 that are in the same ballpark price wise - with each group having 1 lower than the others. Again this is typical and usually the result of small differences in quality. But sometimes it's just the way the bidding happens to run. What I mean by that is that when a coin is going for over two or three thousand a price difference of $200-$300 is nothing. It's simply a bidder giving up at the end. Bottom line, this particular instance went exactly as it usually does. So like I said, no, it's not all strange.[/QUOTE]