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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prethen, post: 37883, member: 1756&quot;]You know how misery loves company?&nbsp; Well, it seems that every numismatist has a story about some large sum of money they blew (lost) in a single coin deal.&nbsp; The loss could be because you bought a piece of junk and didn&#039;t know it or sold something wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>My biggest ouch, which I&#039;m still kicking myself over has to do with the 1995-W Proof SAE.&nbsp; I bought the 1995 Gold Proof Set knowing that the free SAE was worth the price.&nbsp; Prior to moving to Colorado in January of 1997, I sold the set turning a $200 profit on the entire set.&nbsp; I thought that perhaps the run-up on the set was temporary and I didn&#039;t mind having the extra cash freed up from the set for a potential house downpayment.&nbsp; If I had just managed to wait about another year, I would have seen the set soar for the skies.&nbsp; That rush to stupidity has cost me around $2500 in potential profit if I had managed to hold on a bit longer.&nbsp; My wife, who doesn&#039;t care much for the whole numismatic thing, also wonders why I sold the set too soon.&nbsp; In hindsight, what I did was simply short-sighted and I should have known better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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