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Message:: [QUOTE="Volodya, post: 2809447, member: 19615"]I'm actually somewhat familiar with Kahneman Warren. In that sense I may "regret" for instance not finding a way to compete for the Benz Eid Mar (my absolute favorite surviving specimen) in Lanz 88 in 1998, because it sold relatively cheaply and now is forever beyond reach at any price (literally out of reach; it's now locked away in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.) "Relatively" is the operative term here though; from memory, it hammered at 140K DM + commission. "Reasonable" or not, patently that's a lot of money and it would've had to come from somewhere; realistically that "somewhere" would have been my entire coin budget for several years. That's not really what I'm talking about though. My regrets are for coins I could have bought without skimping anywhere else or affecting other coin purchases (or my ability to buy groceries) at all; coins I declined to bid aggressively on or to buy outright because of ill-placed considerations of "value" or a vague sense of having spent "enough" that year already. I regret certain coins I could now have in addition to the coins I do have.[/QUOTE]