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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2501338, member: 76863"]I honestly don't even think it is that complex, really I think it just boils down to two or more people wanting it at the same time with the means to do so. Obviously a single coin is a much greater risk than say the Pogue collection as the strong performers can't carry the underperformers with a single item but even then sometimes an auction appearence is nothing more than an advertisement for a private sale later on. At these levels not everyone makes themselves known and really we don't always learn about sales until well after they happened. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was, they almost never come into positions where they have to sell something and can time their sales how they please. They also get much better deals from auction houses that will market it fully. I wasn't trying to imply there is no risk for coins like these, but rather that the general advice that had been given earlier in the thread that applies to low value coins just doesn't apply at all to coins like these. It is just an entirely different level that the majority of the planet could never operate on[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2501338, member: 76863"]I honestly don't even think it is that complex, really I think it just boils down to two or more people wanting it at the same time with the means to do so. Obviously a single coin is a much greater risk than say the Pogue collection as the strong performers can't carry the underperformers with a single item but even then sometimes an auction appearence is nothing more than an advertisement for a private sale later on. At these levels not everyone makes themselves known and really we don't always learn about sales until well after they happened. It was, they almost never come into positions where they have to sell something and can time their sales how they please. They also get much better deals from auction houses that will market it fully. I wasn't trying to imply there is no risk for coins like these, but rather that the general advice that had been given earlier in the thread that applies to low value coins just doesn't apply at all to coins like these. It is just an entirely different level that the majority of the planet could never operate on[/QUOTE]
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