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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3818774, member: 19463&quot;]Unsold lists are often very informative and worth checking.&nbsp; We can play, &quot;What was he thinking?&quot; setting the minimum bid on absolute trash so high that it could never sell.&nbsp; With a guy who has been doing this for years (like Frank) and who probably knows which coins will draw bids, there may be few surprises.&nbsp; I recall one coin he listed in more than one sale that did not sell.&nbsp; Are there coins no one wants at any price?&nbsp; There are coins too nasty or too boring that most of us don&#039;t want them but it only takes one to adopt the ugly.&nbsp;&nbsp; I dd not look at today&#039;s unolds because I had looked at the &#039;going cheap&#039; list and did not find anything I wanted at the price.&nbsp; The unsolds ranged up to $450 (a very nice coin but one I have in &#039;good enough for me&#039; condition --- I should buy it and enter it in next year&#039;s Curtisimo contest since it is obviously too good for me).&nbsp; We gain out of such lists and prices realized in general a game worth playing.&nbsp; Ask yourself what would have to have been different to make that coin sell.&nbsp; Consider whether you would have wanted the thing at any price?&nbsp; What we learn might help us understand why we win so few or too many of our bids.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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