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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2573301, member: 10461"]PS- whaaat? No black-label NGC or PCGS Regency holder?  Tsk, tsk.  Get busy, man!  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (Not that the latter would fit into a traditional slab box.  Weird things, they were.) You've got a Doily, though- that's cool. About a decade ago, I had the opportunity to buy a PCGS MS65 RD 1854 large cent in a Doily holder.  I say "I had the opportunity" because the dealer I used to help out offered it to me at a "friendly" price, but even with the discount, I couldn't come close to affording it.  Instead, I sold it on eBay for him. A year or two later, I was walking the bourse floor at one of the FUN shows in Orlando and saw it in a dealer's case (not the person I had sold it to).  I jotted down the cert number to be sure it was the same coin.  It was.  Small world. I told myself at the time that if that coin ever crosses my path again, I have to buy it, even if it requires selling a bunch of stuff to make it happen.  Fortunately, it hasn't come back around again, because I still wouldn't be able to afford it.  The price on it jumped at least a grand between the time I sold it for my dealer friend on eBay and the time I saw it at the FUN show.  Heaven only knows what the price on it would be now, particularly in what is now considered rare plastic.[/QUOTE]