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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 3188630, member: 20480&quot;]I&#039;m sure, but I&#039;ve got a story about the one that got away after I got it in the boat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Circa 2008 I saw a raw 1852-C half eagle come up on eBay for $1999 Buy it Now, and it looked all of MS62 to me, with a shot at MS63.&nbsp; I responded just like you did . . . frantically.&nbsp; I was mousing as fast as possible to get deep into the seller&#039;s feedback and then back to the BIN button.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now $2000 was pushing my comfort zone pretty hard at the time, so I was breaking into a cold sweat after committing, but I was very glad to have done so.&nbsp; That figure seemed too low for sure.&nbsp; I returned to the images for a re-examination, and convinced myself I&#039;d done the right thing.&nbsp; The coin was struck with rusted dies, but looked just as I&#039;d remembered.</p><p><br /></p><p>After paying, I returned to seek more coins, and bought a solidly gem BU 1907 $2.50 Lib from the same seller for $299.&nbsp; Another coin listed too cheap.&nbsp; I was beginning to wonder if the seller was committing some kind of fraud.&nbsp; I dug deeper into the seller&#039;s feedback a second time, then revisited those photos and committed again.&nbsp; Doubt was creeping into my mind, but I ignored it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I got the two coins, submitted them, and got great grades . . . MS62 &amp; MS65 respectively.&nbsp; I was in the money in a pretty big way . . . I&#039;ve never scored so big either before or since.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I sold the quarter eagle within a month, but held out longer on the Half Eagle because I was convinced it would regrade MS63.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh yeah, the part about losing the big one after getting it in the boat?&nbsp; Some of you know I lost nearly my entire inventory in a burglary in 2009 . . . Yep that coin was among them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sometimes tempted to say &quot;easy come, easy go&quot;, but then I remember that I still had $2000 in that coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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