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I bought nothing but I sat through the whole thing. The auctioneers were exhausted but troopered on. It was sad how tired they seemed. Ended after midnight in the east coast after more than 6 hours. Remember thinking that I can't wait til its over. Also realized that I have to buy my early dollars at auction... towards the end when everyone seems to have run out of money...  We should pool our money and buy the Farouk/Norweb 1884 Trade dollar. 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.comEdited by numismatic student
01/05/2017 01:36 am
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The auctioneers were exhausted but troopered on. It was sad how tired they seemed. Ended after midnight in the east coast after more than 6 hours. Remember thinking that I can't wait til its over.
Ditto here. They had way too many items in the pm session. The day session only took 3 hours.  You are spot on about the early dollars. I won one of them. I'll post later. I still have more bidding to do. |
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Nice one Andrew. I got my rear handed to me on all of the measly 11 lots I thought I had a chance at. Near the end, I even bid on a couple I didn't anticipate would be so low, but couldn't get into bidding much on coins I hadn't researched as much as I'd have liked.
When folks are saying we are doomed, it sure doesn't look like it from an auction like this one.
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I had to watch until midnight as the dollars went down last. It was a long session. I wish I could have bought more as some pieces were attractively priced, but I've got a FUN budget I'm nearing and a few more bids in a later session.
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I had to watch until midnight as the dollars went down last. It was a long session. I wish I could have bought more as some pieces were attractively priced, Me too. It killed me to sit through the early large cents and half dollars while waiting for the dollars. And after all that waiting, I only won 1 coin. Hindsight's 20/20 but I wish I wouldn't bid on some of those early coins. |
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Nice pickups Andrew, I was tracking about 40 lots for curiosity purposes but sat out on the bidding. I'm just a newbie, maybe next year.
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 Diangs56! You will be ready to tackle it net year  |
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Love that small eagle, Andrew!
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"Same" coin. Neither CACed. Why the discrepancy? My thoughts so far include ending on different nights (the latter was in a featured auction), eye appeal, old green holder, and just plain luck, but I'm curious for people's opinions. That's quite an anomaly. I would start a new thread with this question. You will get more responses.  |
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Quote: Thanks! Curious if anyone can comment on this: AU53 @ $9,400 -- https://coins.ha.com/itm/early-doll.../1251-4526.sAU50 @ $20,562 -- https://coins.ha.com/itm/early-doll.../1251-5685.s"Same" coin. Neither CACed. Why the discrepancy? My thoughts so far include ending on different nights (the latter was in a featured auction), eye appeal, old green holder, and just plain luck, but I'm curious for people's opinions. The AU-53 sold for well below AU money. It is a technical 53, but it is too bright, the surfaces have a lot of marks including a deep dig below the ribbon as well as in the right obverse field, there are ugly adjustment marks across the face. It went for a problem free XF-45 price. The real question is what happened with the AU-50. The AU-50 looks original, has smooth surfaces, and no adjustment marks. It is a solid AU. Still, it was the best example of this coin during FUN, so there must have been competition for it. I had it going for around $12,500. Maybe somebody thought it would 55 today. Edited by Andrew99
01/06/2017 11:48 am
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Nice pickups Andrew, I was tracking about 40 lots for curiosity purposes but sat out on the bidding. I'm just a newbie, maybe next year. Thanks. Some advice for success in these things: Plan for a major auction at least a month in advance. Watch everything you like. Order them by lot # as that is the order you will have to face. Decide the most you want to pay with buyer premium and add 10% to it so you won't be sorry if you lose anything. Wait until 1 hour before the auction and send your bids by Live Proxy. Sending live bids well before the auction is just a way of telegraphing to everyone just how high they have to go to beat you. Plan your if-then strategy in advance so that no decisions have to be made while the auction is live. You don't need to wait another year. The Long Beach auction is partially up already and will be fully up by the end of January. |
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