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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 15148451, member: 10461&quot;]Mine certainly wasn’t nice, but I got it for $3-ish in bulk, and flipped it for $80-ish, back in the early 2000’s.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was mostly luck.&nbsp; But bulk World coin lots, if they’re the right mixture, can offer (or at least <i>did</i> offer, for me) some fertile hunting ground, not only for some great World coin cherrypicks but also for the occasional American Colonial or Civil War Token, etc.&nbsp; Getting tossed in with such a varied assortment of mostly unexamined, often exotic, stuff like that can be good camouflage for these kind of goodies, until the right keen-eyed person comes along.</p><p><br /></p><p>The crazy thing about my Elephant token was that it had been right in plain view in the group photo of the small eBay lot I found it in.&nbsp; It was off in one corner of the photo, and partly obscured by shadows and the other pieces, but visible enough that I was able to say, “wait… is that what I <i>think</i> it is?”&nbsp; And lo and behold, it was!&nbsp; VG details with a fairly heavy dent and some other bad hits, but the real deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I made my bones cherrypicking cheapo World coin and “junkbox” lots, back when I was relatively poor and hungry.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Don’t overlook those World coin lots” was my advice to one customer I had at my early-2000s antique mall booth.&nbsp; He later came back and told me he’d found a <a href="https://coinauctionshelp.com/Pattern_Guides/marthawashingtondime.html#.Y7yWN9NOnDs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinauctionshelp.com/Pattern_Guides/marthawashingtondime.html#.Y7yWN9NOnDs" rel="nofollow">Martha Washington pattern dime</a> in a World lot.&nbsp; I didn’t believe him until I saw the published account in <i>Coin World</i> or somewhere like that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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