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<p>[QUOTE="ctrl, post: 377755, member: 13378"]I think this auction on eBay: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=150250226575" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=150250226575" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=150250226575</a> for a roll of 60 3-cent nickels that were evidently rolled back in 1921 is an interesting one. I was going to bid on it when it was listed, thinking about a conservative price in case there wasn't anything good in the roll (maybe $750), so I could still kind of break even in that case. The current price is up to $1325. It reached this price at May-26-08 16:55:07 PDT with 45 bids.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seller didn't have any pictures of the individual coins, just a description of the dates by decade. After long enough (and enough questions, I'm sure), they put up a fuzzy image of all the coins. The image was added at May-26-08 at 22:58:02 PDT, 6 hours after the last bid and there hasn't been another bid since then. The new image shows a number of holed and some very worn examples. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm curious to see if anyone is going to bid again after seeing the new picture. A warning to not be over enthusiastic about these kinds of auctions, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>What would you guys pay for this item?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ctrl, post: 377755, member: 13378"]I think this auction on eBay: [URL]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=150250226575[/URL] for a roll of 60 3-cent nickels that were evidently rolled back in 1921 is an interesting one. I was going to bid on it when it was listed, thinking about a conservative price in case there wasn't anything good in the roll (maybe $750), so I could still kind of break even in that case. The current price is up to $1325. It reached this price at May-26-08 16:55:07 PDT with 45 bids. The seller didn't have any pictures of the individual coins, just a description of the dates by decade. After long enough (and enough questions, I'm sure), they put up a fuzzy image of all the coins. The image was added at May-26-08 at 22:58:02 PDT, 6 hours after the last bid and there hasn't been another bid since then. The new image shows a number of holed and some very worn examples. I'm curious to see if anyone is going to bid again after seeing the new picture. A warning to not be over enthusiastic about these kinds of auctions, I think. What would you guys pay for this item?[/QUOTE]
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