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<p>[QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 2870923, member: 89393"]I have bought coin lots and PDS sets a few times, but the piker in me gets a little uneasy when I see, say, four coins in successive years, but I need only two of them. </p><p><br /></p><p>So far I've managed to come up with a nice selection of the nine '34 to '36 coins — I said above that I had done the '37 to '47 portion of the series years ago — and I'm happy to say that I was able to buy these for just a little under $200. I've got my eye on nice '29S and '33S coins right now; the opening bids asked are 99¢ each for them but I have no sense of how high other snipers will be going. I do use a sniper tool so as to not call attention to something of potential interest, but there's no guarantee that someone else will do a "live" bid with a proxy that will mess things up a bit. For this reason, I rarely adjust a bid I've set in the sniper, but I admit I've underestimated what some items that interest me will end up selling for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 2870923, member: 89393"]I have bought coin lots and PDS sets a few times, but the piker in me gets a little uneasy when I see, say, four coins in successive years, but I need only two of them. So far I've managed to come up with a nice selection of the nine '34 to '36 coins — I said above that I had done the '37 to '47 portion of the series years ago — and I'm happy to say that I was able to buy these for just a little under $200. I've got my eye on nice '29S and '33S coins right now; the opening bids asked are 99¢ each for them but I have no sense of how high other snipers will be going. I do use a sniper tool so as to not call attention to something of potential interest, but there's no guarantee that someone else will do a "live" bid with a proxy that will mess things up a bit. For this reason, I rarely adjust a bid I've set in the sniper, but I admit I've underestimated what some items that interest me will end up selling for.[/QUOTE]
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