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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1731621, member: 9204&quot;]Doug, you are somewhat correct. There are a few that are comparatively expendable - mostly anepigraphic types with run-of-the-mill deities (Poseidon, Aesculapeus, Fortuna, etc). I focused the brunt of my efforts on the more interesting types (A beautiful head of a dog, an interesting Pan) and pieces with legends (including one that might name the city of Cyzicus!). In any case, I had bids set for all of them, at what I thought they were worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the play by play:</p><p>- A few nights ago, I set my bids using the Gavelsnipe website to snipe them at 10 seconds before closing. The &quot;special&quot; types were set to €125 or €325 for the absolutely indispensable ones. €55 for the middling pieces, €35 for the boring Fortunas and such. </p><p>- I had intended to stay away from my computer, but the pull was too strong. So I sat and watched the first few lots go... to someone else! It wasn&#039;t until my first important lot that I won something. </p><p>- Needless to say, it was time to get in the trenches and raise the bids manually. I was able to salvage most of the middling pieces this way. </p><p>- After a few lots, I was able to notice a pattern. There were only three bidders - an opening bidder with a low bid, myself sniping at 10 seconds, and a third bidder sniping at 2 seconds. He was bidding in the mid fifty euro range, so by manually raising everything to 65 or 75, I managed to beat him. </p><p>- I ended up wining thirteen out of twenty-two lots. Overall, it cost me roughly $1200 less than the max bids I had initially set. It is a shame that I didn&#039;t get the others, but such is life. I will have to make do with the pictures saved to my photofile. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll post pictures after I receive and catalog the coins later this week. It&#039;s bad luck to do it sooner. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you again, everyone, for the wonderful advice, even if I ended up not following all of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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