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<p>[QUOTE="jtlee321, post: 5164104, member: 73983"]This one still hurts...</p><p><br /></p><p>It's a 1948-S/S that I spotted on eBay a couple years ago. It was unattributed and the bidding was very low on it. I had what I considered a nuclear bid set up in my sniping software. In the last 4 seconds, my bid went through. I was then outbid at the last second. Another bidder had seen it as well. We had the bid go from around $10.00 to over $150.00 in the last second of the auction. Come to find out, the buyer that bought it had is bid go to his max. Had I increased my bid by just another $20.00 or so, I would have won it! I found out who the bidder was later on and exchanged messages with them. That's how I found out what his maximum bid was. Anyway, he sent it to PCGS where it graded out at a 64, at the time it was tied for top pop and the last example to sell was for $4000.00 at that grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an image of that actual coin I missed out on. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie88" alt=":sour:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/35428114_137985973_2200.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jtlee321, post: 5164104, member: 73983"]This one still hurts... It's a 1948-S/S that I spotted on eBay a couple years ago. It was unattributed and the bidding was very low on it. I had what I considered a nuclear bid set up in my sniping software. In the last 4 seconds, my bid went through. I was then outbid at the last second. Another bidder had seen it as well. We had the bid go from around $10.00 to over $150.00 in the last second of the auction. Come to find out, the buyer that bought it had is bid go to his max. Had I increased my bid by just another $20.00 or so, I would have won it! I found out who the bidder was later on and exchanged messages with them. That's how I found out what his maximum bid was. Anyway, he sent it to PCGS where it graded out at a 64, at the time it was tied for top pop and the last example to sell was for $4000.00 at that grade. Here is an image of that actual coin I missed out on. :sour: [IMG]https://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/35428114_137985973_2200.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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