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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 1989891, member: 44357&quot;]I definitely appreciate your struggle as well. It&#039;s challenging to commit to bidding significantly over the estimate, but estimates are often quite low to encourage more bidding.</p><p><br /></p><p>My most expensive coin, my Eid Mar denarius, was estimated illogically low but I had to pay 4.13x the estimate to acquire it. I don&#039;t consider myself to have overpaid as there were three other bidders at almost the same price. Most of my best coins cost 2-3x the estimate, and some I&#039;ve won for exactly at the estimate (and on the other side, one of my favorites hammered for 1/4th of my max bid).</p><p><br /></p><p>My approach is to do the research thoroughly ahead of time and stick with my max bid. I usually incorporate a bit of flexibility because it&#039;s hard to know exactly what bid you&#039;ll land on: I&#039;ll leave myself a cut bid or will &quot;complete&quot; a cut bid if one occurs before, but I stop after that.</p><p><br /></p><p>As said above, it&#039;s possible the bidder who won it would bid much higher: maybe they were the bidder on the Agrippa As from NAC 78 for 12 times the estimate <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t worry too much - there is always another coin coming up around the corner![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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