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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3169045, member: 56859&quot;]Phew... thankfully you didn&#039;t have to pay much for that mistake, [USER=93702]@Clavdivs[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>Z-- perhaps an expensive mistake but it&#039;s a gorgeous coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve won a couple of coins by accidental bidding.&nbsp; The first was a tolerable mistake because it wasn&#039;t a budget-buster and it wasn&#039;t expensive.&nbsp; I was on a Skype call while watching the Pecunem auction and waiting for my lot to come up.&nbsp; The coin of interest was coming up soon.&nbsp; My attention wandered for several lots and when it snapped back to the screen I saw the coin on the block was closing.&nbsp; I panicked thinking it was mine and clicked bid, apparently with a nanosecond to go.&nbsp; The coin left the screen and the next lot came up.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t even see what I had won but noticed the lot number of the next coin was still lower than the target coin.&nbsp; Oops.&nbsp; I had to go to the &quot;closed lots&quot; screen to even see what I&#039;d won and for how much.&nbsp; Not a comfortable moment but at least it wasn&#039;t a four figure coin.&nbsp; It seems the coin is mocking my mistake, sticking its tongue out <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cointalk.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fstatic.wixstatic.com%252Fmedia%252Fae43f8_ac8c6fa6228c4353a4e08567418e0f24.jpg%252Fv1%252Ffill%252Fw_1000%252Ch_515%252Cal_c%252Cq_85%252Fae43f8_ac8c6fa6228c4353a4e08567418e0f24.jpg%26hash%3D8e874bbceec954600bb191fd8ad47594&amp;hash=8c8ce5fec07f9cad1f6ccb606cb35c98" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>THRACE, Apollonia Pontika</b></p><p>Mid-late 4th century BCE</p><p>AR drachm, 10 mm, 3.2 gm</p><p>Obv: Facing gorgoneion</p><p>Rev: Upright anchor; A to left, crayfish to right</p><p>Ref: Topalov, Apollonia p. 348, 11</p><p><br /></p><p>The second such mistake (similar circumstances) is not one I wanted to keep and it was sold as quickly as possible.&nbsp; I no longer Skype or talk on the phone while babysitting auctions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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