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Gee Anaconda it took two bids?

I thought you were a buyer of these at $1500 yet it took you two bids to hit the reserve of $450, something doesn't add up. I was going to buy this and sell it to you for only $1400, you are sniping it from me. Link
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  • Now I want to bid! Do you think the obverse looks like that too?
  • Carl both sides are pictured. I love to see someone snake the snake...go for it
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sniping software was made for auctions such as these.....what was he thinking!image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • Well......I brought it up to $550 and he's still has me outbid....Should be an interesting finish lol.....
    Adrian, how high ya going? image
    Toast on
  • Keep going guys (up to $630)...he can afford it.
  • I'm waiting till the end.......Personally I would like to see him get it if I dont.
    Toast on
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    I'll give you $1500 for a proof IHC in a PCGS 63 or better holder that you post here (you have to sell to me for the $1500) on this board that is as spectacular as either one I posted.

    This one doesn't qualify. It may be a very beautiful coin in person with rainbow colors, but it's not rainbow pattern toned like his 63BN. This one is tissue toned and shows more of its color when held at an angle, as it was in this image. His was a dead on shot of an album toned IH proof that acquired a much rarer peripheral type toning that turned out gorgeously. I'm not degrading this Ebay coin, but I just don't think it compares.

    image
  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    The coin Shylock posted is stunning. The one in the auction is nice, but not on the same level. Not even close. It also appears to have carbon spots.
  • Much higher now. Anaconda is on the bid at $809.
  • image im Dumb
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  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    That's Anaconda's coin KlectorKid, the 63BN he posted and made his $1500 challange against.
  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    Much higher now. Anaconda is on the bid at $809.

    And he was upped by a scumbag bidder, misiciliano, who seems to have bid on a ton of cameras.
  • I agree its not as nice but would anything have been as nice?
  • gemtone65gemtone65 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭
    The current E-bay coin takes a very bright light to bring out the colors. I strongly suspect the coin is much darker in person, with colors seen vibrantly only when the coin is tilted just right.

    On the bidding side, regardless of what Anaconda's maximum bid might be, why would you necesssarily expect him to reveal that amount so early in the bidding, especially when there are folks out there ready to bid him up?
  • The current E-bay coin takes a very bright light to bring out the colors. I strongly suspect the coin is much darker in person, with colors seen vibrantly only when the coin is tilted just right.

    I'm sure the same holds true for Anaconda's pr63
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Cointoast! Haven't seen you around for a while.

    We're all still waiting to hear if Cobb settled up! image

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    Jim -- I think that was the failsafe part of his challenge. There are more spectacular toned IHs than his but at much higher grades that would make a $1500 bid a bargain. The unique thing about his coin is it graded 63BN yet still has an outragious obverse. I'm only guessing, but I think it had a large gouge on the reverse (that toned red) which kept the grade down -- combined with some other reverse problems. It may have also lost most of its mirrored fields with the deep album toning. The value of his coin is for the obverse alone and it's kind of unique in that way.

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  • I didn't wait long enough to see the obverse image show up. Now the high bid has gone way up image Really I'd rather have one of those tissue toned Matte Lincolns in 64 RB. But I'd hope none of you found out about it or I couldn't afford it!
  • For whatever it's worth, the IHC I am currently high bidder on does not appear to be as good as the one I currently own. I put another IHC on eBay, also at a price that is not meant to attract bidders. So, I own two cool ones and will buy the one I'm high bidder on, unless of course someone is willing to step up to the plate, more than me.

    I'm not currently trying to sell either one of the ones I have on eBay and I made it clear in both auctions even though I have been criticized on this board by people who I thought were my friends, for posting them for 10K each. I'm weeping very softly now, because I have such sensitive feelings that no one ever seems to think i have. I'm so misunderstood. I just wanted to share with all my friends my good fortune of acquiring these pretty coins and all I get is mistreatment. It's alright though. I don't need any friends. I have my coins. And my computer. And this pencil. They'll never let me down.

    While we're on the topic of books, I got a new book case. I put my nice books in them. Here's what it looks like:

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    And if you're thinking, "that's not about coins", well I guess you just don't know how many coin books I have, do you. Meanie.

    Here's the other IHC I listed:

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    snake
  • Nice bookcase. It goes well with the decorative fireplace. Are any of those old books mint reports? They are always neat to read.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • gemtone65gemtone65 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭
    Anaconda: where can I get a bookcase like that? Jim: I've seen Anaconda's PR63BN IHC in person, and it didn't take a very bright light or any tilting to see immediately that it was a special coin.
  • Gem it was a special coin? did it die?
    I have been criticized on this board by people who I thought were my friends,
    we all know he ain't talkin about me here.
  • What a bookcase! I love it. Now that is a thing of beauty! Happy Thanksgiving to all!
    Carl
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    I'm weeping very softly now, because I have such sensitive feelings that no one ever seems to think i have. I'm so misunderstood.

    Me too. image
  • I'm not misunderstood, you all think I'm an a**hole...........and I am.


  • << <i>I'm not misunderstood, you all think I'm an a**hole...........and I am. >>



    Saved for posterity.
    Keith ™

  • Jim - Quite frankly, I don't think poorly of you. I like you. Who doesn't like you?
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just gotta compete - here's my numismatic bookcase (the one in the middle of the clutter, under the moose horns ....... it helps to squint.....)image

    image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    You pikers. Here is my numismatic book library (well, this is one side of it).

    image
  • Cool moose rack. You might want to consider the ultimate slap in the face to the animal which is putting the gun that killed him, in his rack. Kinda like a testimonial -- "You need one of these here 30 odd Sixes - it sure knocked my ass into the mud!"

    (Don't misconstrue my post - killing animals under many circumstances is OK by me. I eat beef, wear leather goods and have a 8 point buck and turkey on the wall. And this one:


    image

    ended up on my son's wall (that's him holding the fish...)

    Greg - nice shelves. You must have one helluva house....

    anaconda
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Anaconda:

    That's a great idea, but, alas, I had to sell the gun as a graduate student to raise some money. I borrowed my friends float plane and went hunting east of Kotzebue, Alaska. I was literally attacked by a moose that thought the floatplane (when viewed head on) was a challenger. He swam across the lake and started to snort, shaking his head as he approached the floats. I had to shoot him right there in the water. Took me 10 hours to get him out of the lake and quartered (tundra only - no trees to tie a come-along to). I was trying to be ultra conservative with the plane and aborted a take off run - the momentum of having 1000 pounds of moose on board carried the plane 15 feet onto shore. I had to sell everything I owned to pay for the helicopter, repairs, etc. So, a gun from my replenished arsenal just wouldn't look right. Great idea, though. The numismatic connection is, it cost a pretty penny to repair the plane.image

    Great looking fish (and son)! Must have been a great time.
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • $2024!!!!! are you guys shi*ting me? this has got to be a joke.
  • Adrian:

    what did the bookcase set you back?
  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    $2024!!!!! are you guys shi*ting me? this has got to be a joke.

    Adrian puts his money where his mouth is or at least where his balls are. You've got to admire that.
  • Adrian puts his money where his mouth is or at least where his balls are. You've got to admire that.

    I agree...mouth & balls.....NOT brain.


  • << <i>$2024!!!!! are you guys shi*ting me? this has got to be a joke. >>



    Well, the auction is almost over...only a little over 4 days left. image
    Time sure flies when you don't know what you are doing...

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  • zennyzenny Posts: 1,547 ✭✭


    << <i>I thought you were a buyer of these at $1500 yet it took you two bids to hit the reserve of $450, something doesn't add up. I was going to buy this and sell it to you for only $1400, you are sniping it from me. Link >>



    1) o.k. then, let's make that two bids to hit $2024 and counting;

    and

    2) this is the earliest snipe i have ever seen. Now if it were Russ, you wouldn't know you were being sniped until, oh, until it was gooooone.....

    p.s., nice bookcases everyone....
  • Too rich for my blood. Someone is trying hard to outbid the Anaconda.

    Pretty coin but not worth more than $2000.
    Give me your good change please. I'll take it from here, nurse.
  • I believe the bookcase was around 3K. My wife got it through a woman named Pat Schmidt who can be reaced at 972-964-3971.

    Man, I didn't think that IHC would go that high.

    So, Lakesammman, how much were the repairs on the plane?

    adrian
  • Well Jim, your $1,400 pricetag is looking pretty good right now! image
  • My old blue sheet says a PCGS 64bn is $91, can't be that much more today. All $2024 means is thats there is more than one nut out there. Nobody in their right mind can call that a $2K+ coin.

    Greattoning will have to change his pants when he sees this bid.
  • Hey Adrian, you didn't talk ugly to your ex-wife lately, did you? Seems she's on a computer somewhere biddin'up the price your fancy new penny! image
  • the bidder cooladt seems to bid high on a bunch of stuff. I believe I have seen her outbid me on some things that were way out there.
  • DCAMFranklin - if she keeps it up she could end up owning one very, very expensive IHC.

    adrian
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I could be wrong on this, but the cash, once gone, isn't really missed- and you'll always get more of it. The COIN though- that's different. Stellar, beautiful coins don't just happen every day.

    It's easier to replace the cash than the coin.

    (Or, tell yourself it's a Thanksgiving present. I know we don't do that in polite society- what, buy ourselves our own gifts, especially on a Holiday that traditionally doesn't involve the exchanging of gifts, but you're a groundbreaker- a rebel. Breaking the old rules and inventing your own! Go for it, and Happy Thanksgiving.)

    peacockcoins

  • It's easier to replace the cash than the coin.

    This is exactly what I tell myself when I pay too much for a coin. It does make perfect sense. However I'm not buying to put it right back on the market. This coin has just gotten way out of hand. This logic does not hold for this average brown coin. OK, it shows some color when held just right under the right light but many brown coppers would. If I were this seller I would end this auction early and lock in the high bidder before someone retracts a bid. If the excuse of entering the wrong bid amount ever applied it's right here.
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    Don't you think that some times we get too hung up over sheet pricing etc. I find that when I go to a coin show that I usually never end up buying what I intended to buy and never consulting my spreadsheets. I find something that appeals to me and wage that battle against personal appeal and price. If personal appeal wins out I buy it. To me that is what collecting is all about. With this particular coin it seems the same thing is happening. I say so what.
  • Common Irish. I agree with everthing your saying just not in this case, the coin just ain't that damn nice. You should be able to picture what this coin looks like without the flattering photo. You walk up to a table and you see an average brown, with carbon spots, proof indian cent sitting there. You pick it up and roll it around. You see some interesting color. You never pull out a sheet and ask the price. Dealer says $2K. I think this guys on drugs. Don't you guys consider the coins you could be buying when you buy something? I look at this $200 at best coin that is going to sell for $2K and think of all the wonderful pieces I could buy instead.
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    jim, don't disagree with you on whether this coin is that nice, just not my providence to judge what another collector is willing to pay. I will leave that up to the dealers and coin experts. I never look at the sheet, I do my own spreadsheet based upon what the market has done recently. It's not perfect but works for me. I will reiterate I will purchase a coin from a dealer, one that I have seen, at whatever price I feel is fair. I don't think we disagree on this.
  • Irish maybe you won't judge but I will. That is not a $2K coin. And given a little time and shopping around I am sure a much nicer piece could be had for that money.

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