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<p>[QUOTE="tnguyen, post: 705173, member: 20880"]<font face="Arial"><font size="2">Hi all,</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">I'm so glad to have stumbled across this site, and even more grateful this thread! My wife and I are total newbies to coin collecting. In fact, 3 days new. Admittedly, we got ahead of ourselves on a few eBay listings. The most recent being an ungraded <b>1955/5 Doubled Die Error, no VDB, cracked skull and doubled "I"</b> cent. This was our dream come true, four errors on a single coin. With less than 2 minutes remaining of the auction and another browser window opened to PCGS's price guide, we set our maximum bid high. I can't even begin to describe how relieved, happy and excited we were to have won it for $100.00.<font face="Arial"><font size="2"> </font></font>So now you can imagine how we felt after learning this is not a true doubled die error coin and the other 3 errors are quite common. We were naive and careless to assume this was a life changing opportunity. The coin is on it's way to us now, and needless to say, we will not be running and dancing to the mailbox. I hope our experience helps others. </font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Thanks,</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Tin & Laura</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="tnguyen, post: 705173, member: 20880"][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Hi all,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]I'm so glad to have stumbled across this site, and even more grateful this thread! My wife and I are total newbies to coin collecting. In fact, 3 days new. Admittedly, we got ahead of ourselves on a few eBay listings. The most recent being an ungraded [B]1955/5 Doubled Die Error, no VDB, cracked skull and doubled "I"[/B] cent. This was our dream come true, four errors on a single coin. With less than 2 minutes remaining of the auction and another browser window opened to PCGS's price guide, we set our maximum bid high. I can't even begin to describe how relieved, happy and excited we were to have won it for $100.00.[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT]So now you can imagine how we felt after learning this is not a true doubled die error coin and the other 3 errors are quite common. We were naive and careless to assume this was a life changing opportunity. The coin is on it's way to us now, and needless to say, we will not be running and dancing to the mailbox. I hope our experience helps others. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Thanks,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Tin & Laura[/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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