Here's a link to an auction I just won on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180558247285&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT I know the date is rather worn, but it is legible. The book value in my price guide in G-4 condition is $20, so I'm quite surprised I got it for a total of $3. What do you think?
It's not a good pic but I can tell there's a 17 there. The seller didn't do himself any favors with this photo.
Sometimes items just don't get the bids. I completed a circulated Jefferson set with a 1938 D AU 55 (guess) with an additional 44 Silver nickles and 10 pre 1942 for $26. I got 35 padded envelopes for 6c plus $2.95 shipping. So sometimes you really do win I guess. A friend with a large used motorcycle parts store explained that sometimes the guy who really wants it, doesn't look that day or week. Matching goods with a top paying buyer is a lot of luck. You did Good though. gary
I like to think that eventually those people who keep outbidding me will win their auctions and stop bidding, so pretty soon I won't have to pay so much, but it never seems to work out that way. Doing really well on an auction like this happens to me once in awhile with a buffalo nickel or Indian head cent and then I get suspicious because it doesn't make sense that that one coin has no bids and the next one has five. Then there are other types of coins, like a few of the Lincoln cents from the teens that I still need, that always seem to go right around book value no matter that there's a ton of them for sale.
