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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 8320586, member: 98035"]If you had bought it, of course it would have only hammered for $750 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm in the same boat, but I tend to get a case of the Baggins...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473787[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Quinctilius Varus - Bought poorly attributed for $500; probably worth $3,000+, but if I sell it, I will never again own a Varus portrait coin again because finding it for under $1,000 was literally a once in a lifetime occurrence[ATTACH=full]1473788[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Bought this Athens tet from one of the first Zeus or Ares auctions, back when people didn't bid crazy on nice coins from new auction houses. I think it was less than $400 and as a transitional type between Starr V and early Mass, is probably worth a lot more. I intended to flip it, but now it's in a display case on my desk - the owl was too cute.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473790[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Found this Seleukos I tet attributed as Alexander III, won it for $125. It's not worth crazy money with the scrapes on the reverse, but probably at least twice what I paid. Again, intended to flip it, and it stuck with me</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473789[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one turned up in a Leu lot after selling individually at Roma for something like $400 - it is unpublished and was unique, but now I think is the finest of 2 or 3 known. I didn't know what I had until it was in-hand. I intended to sell every coin in the lot to maximize my profit, but couldn't part with this one</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473791[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 8320586, member: 98035"]If you had bought it, of course it would have only hammered for $750 ;) I'm in the same boat, but I tend to get a case of the Baggins... [ATTACH=full]1473787[/ATTACH] Quinctilius Varus - Bought poorly attributed for $500; probably worth $3,000+, but if I sell it, I will never again own a Varus portrait coin again because finding it for under $1,000 was literally a once in a lifetime occurrence[ATTACH=full]1473788[/ATTACH] Bought this Athens tet from one of the first Zeus or Ares auctions, back when people didn't bid crazy on nice coins from new auction houses. I think it was less than $400 and as a transitional type between Starr V and early Mass, is probably worth a lot more. I intended to flip it, but now it's in a display case on my desk - the owl was too cute. [ATTACH=full]1473790[/ATTACH] Found this Seleukos I tet attributed as Alexander III, won it for $125. It's not worth crazy money with the scrapes on the reverse, but probably at least twice what I paid. Again, intended to flip it, and it stuck with me [ATTACH=full]1473789[/ATTACH] This one turned up in a Leu lot after selling individually at Roma for something like $400 - it is unpublished and was unique, but now I think is the finest of 2 or 3 known. I didn't know what I had until it was in-hand. I intended to sell every coin in the lot to maximize my profit, but couldn't part with this one [ATTACH=full]1473791[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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