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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tricon7, post: 1517728, member: 39845&quot;]I also have that book &quot;100 Greatest US Coins&quot; and I recall an early 1800s coin mentioned in there (I don&#039;t remember the specific coin - d&#039;oh!) that was very rare even around 1900 when this story took place, and some wealthy businessman like Astor or Vanderbilt got into a bidding war with another coin collector when one finally came up for sale. Astor (if it was him) finally relented, saying that he wasn&#039;t going to pay over X amount for it, and that he would wait for the next one to surface. The problem was, another never surfaced in his lifetime, and it was always a big regret for him that he didn&#039;t pursue the one that got away, since he was a big coin collecter. It was an interesting story to go along with an interesting coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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