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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1342783, member: 27832"]I bought a collection from eBay one time that had a link to photos of every coin, stored in three-ring sheets. As it turned out, one of the photos cropped out the top row, which included three Walkers and this lady:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]154737.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Lately I've been buying batches of V-nickels from one particular seller. Previously, the seller laboriously laid out each lot on a scanner and imaged both sides of each coin; lately, they've been getting lazy and just dumping them in a pile on the scanner. The lots that show an 1885 or a reverse with an S get higher bids, but the winning bids on the rest of the lots have been steadily creeping up as well -- these lots appear to be truly unsearched, and apparently the people who have been bidding on them feel like they're getting more than their money's worth. I haven't come across any really high-dollar surprises yet, but I'm thinking of staying in the game a bit longer. (Still not sure what to do with the big pile of commons and the smaller pile of culls, though.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1342783, member: 27832"]I bought a collection from eBay one time that had a link to photos of every coin, stored in three-ring sheets. As it turned out, one of the photos cropped out the top row, which included three Walkers and this lady: [ATTACH]154737.vB[/ATTACH] Lately I've been buying batches of V-nickels from one particular seller. Previously, the seller laboriously laid out each lot on a scanner and imaged both sides of each coin; lately, they've been getting lazy and just dumping them in a pile on the scanner. The lots that show an 1885 or a reverse with an S get higher bids, but the winning bids on the rest of the lots have been steadily creeping up as well -- these lots appear to be truly unsearched, and apparently the people who have been bidding on them feel like they're getting more than their money's worth. I haven't come across any really high-dollar surprises yet, but I'm thinking of staying in the game a bit longer. (Still not sure what to do with the big pile of commons and the smaller pile of culls, though.)[/QUOTE]
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