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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2821731, member: 10461&quot;]Neat story.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had several &quot;small world&quot; moments with <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pill-poppin-sam-before-the-big-binge-1773-love-token-on-british-king-george-iii-halfpenny.287430/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pill-poppin-sam-before-the-big-binge-1773-love-token-on-british-king-george-iii-halfpenny.287430/">love tokens</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>But speaking of those 17th century English tokens, I once bought a small lot of about a half a dozen of those (from [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER]), for around four or five dollars each.&nbsp; I hoped they would fetch near $20 or so apiece on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>All but one of them did indeed close in the $18-22 price range.&nbsp; The one exception languished all week at auction in the $7-ish range, with relatively few bids.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say it was at $7.23 all week- something like that.&nbsp; I happened to be watching around the closing time of the auction, so I kept refreshing the page to see what would happen at the very end, in those last sniper-prone seconds...</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>... ten seconds left ... $7.23.</p><p><br /></p><p>... five seconds left... $7.23.</p><p><br /></p><p>... <i>two</i> seconds left... $7.23.</p><p><br /></p><p>... AUCTION CLOSED ... <b>$467.38</b>.</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><i>Woohoo!!! WOW! What just happened?!?</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I forget the exact amounts, now.&nbsp; It was something like that.&nbsp; <i>Over four hundred dollars</i>.&nbsp; I nearly fell out of my chair, then got up and danced a silly little jig that the Monty Python lads would&#039;ve been proud of.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the last second or two, two different snipers had gone to war over the token, resulting in that (relatively) stratospheric closing price.</p><p><br /></p><p>It turned out that there were only perhaps five or six examples of that particular token known, and three were in museums.&nbsp; The winning bidder was in the same town in England where the token had been originally issued.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of Charles II, when I shipped the token to the winner, I also included the holey Charles II halfgroat you see in Post #5 above, as a bonus gift for the winner.</p><p><br /></p><p>(And [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] got thrown a crumb or two as well.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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