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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2682072, member: 83956&quot;]This penurious professor doesn’t have any really expensive coins. But I spent the most on this shekel of Tyre a little over ten years ago, and it’s probably hard to find one in this condition for much under $1000 these days. And the purchase story is really good.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I had a modest windfall of a few hundred dollars, and since such windfalls rarely happen, I wanted to get a “special” coin that I probably would not ever buy otherwise. I’m interested in Biblical-related issues and always wanted a shekel. In those days I really didn’t know about the auction world, so scouring VCoins was pretty much my only option. For no less than a YEAR I checked VCoins faithfully multiple times a week. All the shekels of quality were several hundred dollars--more than I wanted to spend. But finally, after about a year of waiting, I found a nice example and decided I would go ahead and bite the bullet and buy it. I decided to sleep on it one more night, and then I logged into VCoins the next morning. This coin, which had been in VCoins at least for weeks—maybe months—was gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was kicking myself for waiting so long; the most affordable nice shekel had been scooped up. But I had a desperate flash of intuition. I checked the VCoins auction site—not the retail site—and there it was. I guess the dealer had gotten tired of it sitting in his inventory all that time and, that very morning, had moved it to the auction platform. I got the shekel for the minimum bid, which was HALF of what I was about to pay.</p><p><br /></p><p>And we lived happily ever after.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]599774[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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