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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2741680, member: 44316"][USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER], long ago, when paper catalogs delivered in the mail were the way people got to see fixed-price coins, I got an Empire catalog with an Odovacar AE4 for $125 (Empire list 25, July 1985, lot J201, in "F"; I still have the catalog). I called immediately to order it and Dennis (the dealer) told me it was gone already and I was about the twentieth caller requesting it. I could tell he was irritated with himself for pricing it too low and having to answer so many fruitless phone calls. At the time I lived in Montana and got mail after noon. He mailed catalogs from Florida. I thought the east-coast buyers had a head start of a day, or at least a few hours, on anything that came in the mail. If it was special and underpriced, it was always gone. Now, the internet has evened things out. Electrons reach the west coast just about as soon as they do the east coast![/QUOTE]