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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8204963, member: 110350"]I don't usually put a coin in my VCoins shopping cart unless I'm ready to buy it, but I do keep many coins on my watch list practically forever.  I currently have almost 100 different coins parked there, from as long ago as June 2020, not counting quite a few that have been sold to someone else since I put them on the list. And the same is true at MA-Shops, although my watch list there is a little shorter. Sometimes I just scroll through the lists and imagine buying everything on them if I had infinite amounts of money! And yes, there are coins I wish I had purchased, but dithered about for too long. The specific example I can remember is this Roman Republican denarius of L. Rubrius Dossenus, which was on my watch list at MA-Shops for several months last year: [ATTACH=full]1438237[/ATTACH] Eventually, I tried to buy it, but got a message that it had just been sold. (Quite a coincidence! I suspect that the coin had actually been sold some time before, but the dealer forgot to remove it until I tried to buy it.) I have looked for a similar example ever since, and there have been many of the type up for sale (both at retail and at auction), but I have never again seen another one that shows all the details so clearly, particularly the wolf's head at the back of the cart. So I still think of it as one that got away.[/QUOTE]