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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbreeze, post: 2762686, member: 86726&quot;]Insider, after reading my comment and how it may come across, please understand that I am not trying to pump myself up or brag about my collection or push anybody else down.&nbsp; I am just trying to explain the only way I know about the weird world that is cash coins...probably one of the many reasons that NGC and PCGS will not authenticate them.&nbsp; I&#039;ll give you two other crazy examples.&nbsp; I have another strange piece that is not listed anywhere.&nbsp; Some of the people that have seen it say it&#039;s a well known fake.&nbsp; Others say it is an extremely rare piece that is worth a lot of money and have offered me on the coin.&nbsp; My perspective is that I would say, to the best of my knowledge, that it is 100% not legit.&nbsp; I just don&#039;t &quot;feel&quot; like the coin is a properly executed piece from the perceived time period.&nbsp; But, there are people who want to buy it.&nbsp; Example 2 explains why I won&#039;t sell it and why the legitimacy of a piece is in the eye of the potential buyer.&nbsp; I was following some cash lots in the last Hong Kong auction (I think it was the last HK auction).&nbsp; I am not able to travel to HK, so, after reading the descriptions, looking at the pictures, etc., I decided on one lot to go after.&nbsp; It was 202 pieces of cash coinage that I just thought was the best lot, even though there were lots with several thousand pieces that were going cheaply in my opinion.&nbsp; So, the lots all go by and I&#039;m waiting for my lot.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to get this lot no matter what it takes and have saved up the money to go get it.&nbsp; Bidding starts and I don&#039;t even have time to put a bid in before it is several thousand dollars.&nbsp; I watch in awe as it closes over $50,000.&nbsp; What was in that lot?&nbsp; Which two people saw a coin or coins that were that rare and legit to warrant such a price?&nbsp; I will never know, but man would I love to know the exact 202 coins in that lot.&nbsp; This is purely conjecture with no facts, but does that mean that the auctioneers and any experts they may have let see this lot to determine an estimate didn&#039;t see this coming.&nbsp; If they did, why wouldn&#039;t they separate such a piece or pieces and let everyone bid on them separately?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know, but $50,000 for 202 pieces of cash that were determined to be somewhat unworthy to stand alone on their own is unfathomable to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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