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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1684601, member: 19463&quot;]These will be so much better in a thousand years. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Accidents can lead us into new interests.&nbsp; Oddly, this week I also bought an &#039;accidental&#039;&nbsp; but was outbid for the coin I really wanted.&nbsp; That brings up the question of whether I should have bid higher on the 1st choice by the amount the accident cost.&nbsp; Of course you never know whether bidding an extra hundred over the final price would have won it or if the buyer had bid a thousand more to protect himself from losing what we both might have considered the best coin in the sale.&nbsp;&nbsp; Like you I am glad to have the accidental coin but now have to wonder since it was not something I specialize in whether I paid too much for it (since no one else seemed to want it).&nbsp; Auctions are strange beasts frequented by creatures like me that could easily be termed even stranger.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll post mine when it arrives.&nbsp; I do not like to post &#039;coming attractions&#039; in the belief that the practice may jinx the safe arrival.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure I trust every seller to send a coin after someone points out what it actually was.&nbsp; In this case the accident is coming from a source beyond any question but within the month I have won coins for less than a quarter of what I consider them to be worth and would prefer that the seller not know that.&nbsp; Similarly I have lost coins that someone else paid four times my bid so it all evens out in the end.&nbsp; Perhaps it is good that such things go to someone who wants them most.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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