I broke one of my own rules, and I lost! I have always told myself (and others), bid what you are willing to pay. But today I thought I would try sniping a lot. I waited until 15 seconds and entered my bid. I was the high bidder! I then refreshed it with a few seconds to go and sadly I was out bid. In a panic I hit the bid button again (no time to enter a high bid now) and he beat me again! What a loss. I am such an idiot for ignoring my own advice. Never again! Anyway, the coin in question is below. Its an unusual and rare coin and is of the highest artistic merit. Maybe one of you won it??
Wow, that's a lovely coin. But in the end, you did NOT pay more than you had planned to in the first place, so same end result as heading your own advice I guess. But man, I've never regretted paying more than I planned to in the first place, I can't is always the case for coins I let go because I stayed disciplined on my spending. If I remember correctly, TIF helped talk my into spending more than I planned to on this coin! THANKS TIF!!!! I LOVE this coin.
Sniping usually does not lead to success for me. However, in my win last week of the Maxentius Follis I outgunned somebody in the last few seconds, raising my bid to $56 (which to be honest is not a lot of $) I was surprised the bidding did not go higher...
No. Many dies were made using letter punches, and what you see is a remnant of that method. I dont see any smoothing on it.
Imagine that coin intaglio. The letter punch theory seems unlikely to me because the sunken areas around the letters would be raised on the die. Imagine carving or stamping that in an intaglio die! A letter punch would have to be used on the actual coin. I wouldn't rule that out but why take the trouble?
