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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3576706, member: 10461&quot;]Once a coin leaves my ownership, what happens with it is none of my business, as long as it is authentic and was properly described by me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Case in point.&nbsp; This would have caused some people an ulcer.&nbsp; I took it philosophically.</p><p><br /></p><p>Behold the <b>1806 O-129 discovery coin</b>, cherrypicked right off of my <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">Holey Coin Vest</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]953741[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]953742[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I sold/swapped it for $75-ish at the time (2005).</p><p><br /></p><p>Next guy got $1,801 for it when he sold it on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two highest competing bidders were prepared to go much higher than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Neither I nor the person I sold it to (the guy who got $1,801 for it, to his utter delight and astonishment) had any idea it was a previously unknown die marriage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The guy who wrote the article about it (which has since disappeared from the Internet) said:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(Mind you, that was before another one had yet been found. Since then, I think one or two others turned up.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, well. Can&#039;t win &#039;em all, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>That one slipped right through my fingers. But I&#039;ve never been a die variety minutiae kinda guy.&nbsp; I never would have known.</p><p><br /></p><p>The guy who (unknowingly) cherrypicked me had the good grace to send me a copy of the Overton half dollar variety book, signed by him and the person who made the discovery.</p><p><br /></p><p>(That was done as a classy gesture and not as a way of rubbing my nose in it.&nbsp; He had no obligation to me.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I lose no sleep over it.&nbsp; For my 75 bucks, I made a modest profit off of it (since I had gotten it for $40-ish worth of Irish coins and some proof sets).&nbsp; And I have another tale to tell. </p><p><br /></p><p>You have to admit it&#039;s a good &quot;one that got away&quot; story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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