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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 1811333, member: 25270&quot;]On the subject of learning about buying from selling, I think I have learned some interesting things. The biggest things I&#039;ve learned probably fall under the umbrella of how little logic there is in what coins sell for. I&#039;ve had coins listed for sale starting at a dollar bid, with no interest at all for months, and then all of a sudden two bidders come along and bid each other up and the coin sells for $10. I&#039;ve seen coins that should fetch several dollars go for much less, and others that should be of very little value sell for a lot more. I&#039;ve found that there are certain sellers out there who can consistently sell the same coin that I am selling for several times the price I get for it just because of who they are. Some of these things I learn from buying too, but it really is fascinating to watch your own and others completed auctions over time and see the strange things that happen. </p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I purchased a group of 49 Asian coins from a seller who didn&#039;t know anything about them. I don&#039;t know much about Asian coins either but I&#039;ve been trying to learn more and it was only $7 total for the lot. There were a bunch of coins from Myanmar/Burma included, and I didn&#039;t have very many of those before. The price guide lists most of these coins at 10 or 20 cents value (these are late 1940s, early 1950s coins). I had some doubles, so I listed them starting at $1. Well, two of them ended up selling for $18, and two others for $9.50. I had no idea there was such interest in this country out there. That&#039;s what I learned from that sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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