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I did look in ebay and as expected, the 74 is scarcer and harder to find than the more common 74-S although the pricing doesn't fully reflect this. And all of the examples I saw were low eye appeal and overpriced. As you know we are in a somewhat abnormal market where people seem to be bidding up and snapping up all the better material out there. When this happens, I think I have to react by being more selective. Another thing that serves me well is that I don't need to fill holes or complete sets. If I do, I never let anyone know that this is the case. My approach is to look at a lot of coins of all types and only consider a coin if it sings to me in terms of eye appeal, and then I look at price, filtering out stuff that is overpriced in my mind. It is a lot like the Tinder dating app where you quickly swipe left (skip) if not interested and swipe right (save/watch) if it meets my criteria. I cast my net wide and find not knowing what is going to come up ensnared in my net at any time fun and exciting. I find that focusing too narrowly on a series, date, MM or other narrow attribute is frustrating and causes me to miss other, better opportunities. Like I've said before, I try to look for stuff that sings to me at first sight, and preferably material that I'm not competing with half the world out there to win. For all of this patience is key, and I readily admit that many others here are better than me at this. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Posted 04/23/2022 3:57 pm
