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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 2047734, member: 24091&quot;]WoW(!) Those are sensational. Especially the Vienna-Trieste Railway issue.&nbsp; Most of my Austrian coins are 20th century, but some real killer coins none the less.&nbsp; Lady In The Clouds in MS60, along with a nice run of gold coins from the 20s and 30s.&nbsp; The best crown is an 1908, a very common coin in AU but elusive in true BU, mine is an MS63+ (PCGS) white and without crud.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think you are probably right about eBay and serious collectors.&nbsp; For someone with the resources to buy really choice material, their time is far more valuable to them than their money, and with all the other crap on eBay now days that amounts to little more than noise, -sorting through it all has made the site impractical for many seasoned collectors.&nbsp; That they have run off so many sellers with all their nit-picking rules was bad enough, but now that the serious buyers are headed for the exits as well, really bodes badly for eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty much strictly a world coin guy, so not all of my observations necessarily apply to US coinage.&nbsp; But I have noticed that many of the highest prices realized on eBay the past year or two have been on modern issues.&nbsp; Much like you observed, on some of the better pieces, the prices realized are half what they should be, and then there is 13% that has to be forfeited to eBay and PayPal to add insult to injury.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a great example:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1908-China-Empire-Silver-Dollar-Dragon-Coin-NGC-Y-14-AU-58-/361098880770" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1908-China-Empire-Silver-Dollar-Dragon-Coin-NGC-Y-14-AU-58-/361098880770" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/1908-China-Empire-Silver-Dollar-Dragon-Coin-NGC-Y-14-AU-58-/361098880770</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.stacksbowers.com/BrowseAuctions/LotArchive/tabid/805/ProductID/832182/AuctionID/6048/Lot/32025/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stacksbowers.com/BrowseAuctions/LotArchive/tabid/805/ProductID/832182/AuctionID/6048/Lot/32025/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.stacksbowers.com/BrowseAuctions/LotArchive/tabid/805/ProductID/832182/AuctionID/6048/Lot/32025/Default.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Granted they aren&#039;t the same grade, but if anything, you would think the problem-free coin in AU58 would out-perform the details graded UNC, yet quite the opposite occurred.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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