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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 14943149, member: 10461&quot;]Here’s “the one that got away”.&nbsp; I spied it on Friday morning and shot these pics, intending to think about it overnight and perhaps return for it Saturday morning.&nbsp; The dealer said I could have it for $1,800, which would’ve blown most of my budget for the whole show.&nbsp; Still, I was tempted to “go big”.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1532375[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1532376[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, I had asked [USER=73385]@tibor[/USER] privately what he thought of the coin.&nbsp; He said he wasn’t thoroughly familiar with the type, and, though he said it was very nice, he advised me that I might be better off getting several other nice pieces of lower price rather than blowing most of my bank on a single big-ticket purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>Saturday AM rolled around, and I was decided to go <i>against</i> that advice and take the plunge on it anyway.&nbsp; So I went back to that dealer’s booth.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was gone.&nbsp; The dealer said someone had just traded him a Krugerrand for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I guess that worked out the way it was supposed to.&nbsp; I was halfway relieved that the other buyer had just saved me from myself, and I ended up buying several other pieces instead of one big one, just as [USER=73385]@tibor[/USER] had advised.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps I should have asked [USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER] or [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] about this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] - Hey, Doug, [USER=11540]@ldhair[/USER] and I spoke about you.&nbsp; He reminisced about past times y’all had spent at FUN.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wondered if you might be there this year, and hoped you would, but I know you’re mostly retired from collecting now, so I wasn’t sure if I’d run into you or not.&nbsp; We could have compared hats. [ATTACH=full]1532378[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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