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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3132580, member: 19463&quot;]This is where Frank&#039;s auctions are different than others.&nbsp; Frank&#039;s prices realized not only tell you what the coin sold for but what the high bid was.&nbsp; In this case, you called and were told that the coin was over your bid because to win it you had to bid over the then high not the current level.&nbsp; When you look at a CNG auction that stands at $100, you have no way of knowing if that bid belongs to someone who bid exactly $100 or perhaps $10,000.&nbsp; Some of you will place a half dozen bids incrementing up the price but never exceeding the secret high.&nbsp; Frank would make more if he encouraged you to bid blindly up to your level but instead he told you to go away unless you planned to go really big.&nbsp; He also would lose the business of people like me.&nbsp;&nbsp; My opinion is that the coin was not worth the high bid but was worth the sale price.&nbsp; I&#039;ll bet that is the case with a lot of the lots sold by CNG to &#039;liberal&#039; bidders like Cleo.&nbsp;&nbsp; All this is a bit of a game.&nbsp; Sometimes we pay too much; sometimes we get a deal; sometimes we ask ourselves why we did it the way we did it.&nbsp; I am anxiously awaiting one of the coins I won in this sale.&nbsp; I bid based on my total lack of respect for Frank&#039;s photography thinking that images that look that way in the past have yielded pretty coins.&nbsp; If I was wrong, it may well go in &quot;Santa&#039;s Pack&quot; and be given to some good little boy or girl come Christmas.&nbsp; I hope we all will be thrilled with what we bought in FSR105.&nbsp; I hope we will all fess up and post here both our winners and errors. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you asked, he would have told you the weight.&nbsp; I only recall it was less than mine and I lost interest when I learned that I would not take over the CT &#039;fat Ptolemy&#039; lead (I believe I&#039;m third now).&nbsp; It looked like a pretty coin but a fatty fine beats a dieting VF when it comes to obese octobols.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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