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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2701462, member: 76086&quot;]Well, reading some comments....I dont expect to see any great bargains from one of the biggest auctions of the year.&nbsp;&nbsp; Could be, but who knows?&nbsp; But, keep in mind that Gemini is run with some old fashioned ideas dating back maybe 30 years or more.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying that is bad, but can equally be extremely good, honestly.&nbsp; Most multiple lots are not photographed.&nbsp; That was common in the old days (it was very expensive to shoot and print photos into catalogs, I can tell you from experience), but of course now it takes simply several minutes to set up, shoot, process and upload that photo.&nbsp; Honestly it doesn&#039;t take more than a few dollars to do this, but in the old days it was exponentially more.&nbsp; And thus some old school dealers hold to this concept.&nbsp; Its too cheap, so there wont be any photo, its too expensive and time consuming, the coins are too plebeian, so there wont be any photo.&nbsp; Those may be the lots where the bargains may be (but equally might not be, as there is no photo).&nbsp; That is the way of the &#039;old&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember a few years back I bid in a XXXXXX auction (wont say who, I guess I dont want to make more enemies) prior to its opening, having entered my bids earlier.&nbsp; I think it was maybe one of the first years they ran the auction live on the internet.&nbsp; You could not only see the auctioneer but hear everything in the room (was held in conjunction with the New York International).&nbsp; When they got to the lots I bid on there was some confusion and the auction slightly halted.&nbsp; The comment was something like, book bid is, wait?&nbsp; What?&nbsp; $778?&nbsp; What is that?&nbsp; I dont understand.&nbsp; Why is it an odd amount?&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t make sense. Its not even within the bid amounts?&nbsp; There was some discussion.... let him have it, no, thats stupid he should not get it for being stupid, etc.&nbsp; Eventually I lost out to a room bid of $725.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Who knows really, but the auctioneer and I had a slight (but published) disagreement about certain aspects of the coin market WAY back in the early 1980&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I lost.&nbsp; That&#039;s OK.&nbsp; As I always say, there have been many coins before, there will be many more after.&nbsp; Wait, did I lose track?&nbsp; Yea, I guess I really did.&nbsp; What were the questions?&nbsp; Heck, I dont know, but something prompted this memory.&nbsp; So, take it as you will.&nbsp; I have many more random thoughts![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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