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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2430129, member: 56859&quot;]Paul, create a free account at <a href="https://www.numisbids.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/" rel="nofollow">Numisbids</a>.&nbsp; With that auction aggregator you can make a &quot;Want List&quot;.&nbsp; Whenever there are upcoming coins matching your criteria, you&#039;ll get an email.&nbsp; I&#039;ve noticed those notifications aren&#039;t sent immediately after the auction is published, but they do arrive in plenty of time to bid.&nbsp; You can also make &quot;Watch&quot; lists for coins you like in upcoming auctions, and you can even make notes about them.&nbsp; Two days before the auction closes, Numisbids sends an email reminder and it has thumbnails of each of your watched coins for that auction.&nbsp; I find this very helpful.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sixbid.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid.com/" rel="nofollow">Sixbid</a> is another auction aggregator.&nbsp; Almost every auction house on Numisbids is also on Sixbid, and vice versa, but because of the few differences I generally browse both.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think Sixbid has a Want List feature but they do have Watch List capabilities similar to Numisbids.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll need to keep the search terms general for these two aggregators.&nbsp; &quot;Athens tetradrachm&quot;.&nbsp; Most of the hits won&#039;t tick all of your checkboxes (tip of nose on flan, etc), but at least you won&#039;t miss seeing the upcoming possibilities.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can even submit your bids through those auction aggregators if you wish.&nbsp; I&#039;ve tried that a few times and prefer to bid directly with the auction house.&nbsp; Once, even though I submitted my bids before the cutoff, the bids weren&#039;t registered with the auction house (probably the auction houses&#039;s dropped ball, not the aggregator).&nbsp; I would have won three of the coins for under my max <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On both Numisbids and Sixbid, with some of the listed e-auctions you don&#039;t have the ability to put them on your watch list because clicking on that auction takes you straight to the auction houses&#039; sites.&nbsp; Often the individual auction house has Watch List and Want List capability.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">CNG</a> also has Want List capability and of course theirs is more sophisticated, allowing greater specificity.&nbsp; It can be found under User Services (Automated Want List Requests).&nbsp; I have oodles of coins on my CNG list.&nbsp; It is particularly handy for infrequently seen coins, which I often forget to search for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck in your quest, and be patient.&nbsp; Athens tets are plentiful.&nbsp; Eventually you&#039;ll find what you want, hopefully at a price you like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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