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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samclemens3991, post: 26105649, member: 82181&quot;]I cannot post my white whale.&nbsp; It was a dream too far.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I decided to put together a date set of Seated Half dollars but i also decided I would build a complete year set of New Orleans coins.&nbsp; I came up 1 coin short on both sets. 1852-O.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I started on my goal around 1997 and had only 2 coins left by 2008.&nbsp; 1879 and 1852-O.&nbsp; I eventually got the 79.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stupid fact.&nbsp; I discovered that some moron had over a dozen low grade 52-O coins for sale on E-Bay in 2008.&nbsp; I never used E-Bay so didn&#039;t know someone was winning/buying all the VG and below coins and then marking them up by thousands of dollars.&nbsp; He had every coini I had ever bid on for more than a decade.&nbsp; I kept track for several years but never saw him sell one.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; In 2015 I sold some coins and made a war chest to go for a higher grade 1852-O.&nbsp; It was still not to be. I had 2 or 3 chances but got sniped/lost each time.&nbsp; Covid came around and the war chest, the bulk of my collection and just about everything but my shoelaces went towards surviving another day.&nbsp; James[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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