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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8237417, member: 26430&quot;]I&#039;m so glad to know that I&#039;m not the only one who watches auctions for entertainment! Usually I do that with ones with live auctioneer/video-feed. As [USER=104741]@Ignoramus Maximus[/USER] says, though, it can be a challenge to stay out if you don&#039;t intend to bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently I&#039;m especially susceptible to bid callers with a certain British accent... and once they&#039;ve lured me into making the first bid, if they start talking to me through video monitor, &quot;Just one more bid, internet?&quot; Old chap?</p><p><br /></p><p>I even caught myself one time, after logging out to resist his influence, wondering if he could see who&#039;s logged in on his monitor, and worrying I&#039;d hurt the pleasant fellow&#039;s feelings! Amazing what goes through the mind in the heat of the moment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below, I only intended to bid on the Alexander gold stater from Morton &amp; Eden, Auction 104 in 2019, at Sotheby&#039;s. After winning my first lot, though, I (completely irrationally) felt a connection ... or wanted the approval of the bid caller or something crazy ... and it may have been one reason I started bidding again! Walked away with two more coins (from one lot, so three coins in two lots total):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449391[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449392[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And, by sheer luck, I later happened to find that owl pictured in a couple of my old fixed price lists c. 1974-5! (Harlan J Berk FPL #2 &amp; Dennis Weaver Nov. 1975 w/ Tom Stanton.) No such luck yet for the other two coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449393[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I know in my rational mind that M&amp;E&#039;s lovely British-accented bid-caller isn&#039;t responsible for me finding a fun 45-year old lost provenance, but all-in-all, I still think of him and his hypnotic voice with fondness!</p><p><br /></p><p>Seeing the live bidding at Stack&#039;s recent auction, I wonder how much that exuberant, charismatic bid-caller was responsible for the Constantine GLORIA EXCERCITVS AE3 hammering at $1,560 (the pre-bid was only $500).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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