Arrrrgghhhhhh..... I wish I knew this coin was going to go so cheap

seanq

I had this on my watch list and placed an early tracking bid, but I'd more or less written it off as out of my price range. I'm now sitting here steaming that I didn't at least take one more shot at it. There's not a lot of money in the budget right now for coins but I could probably find a way to swing $105 a nice clipped late date large cent in red-brown UNC:

Clipped 1855 cent that sold too cheap

I'm pretty sure the seller is a member here, if the bidder is too then my congratulations go out to him as well. I'm going to go kick myself to sleep.


Sean Reynolds

habaraca

sure looks like post mint damage to me.

Aren't clips little dish or moon looking missing areas on the coin???

GAT

You don't know how lucky you are for not having spent your money. This seller isn't held in high regard on this board. Do a search for his ID here and read the old threads.

lathmach

I sure think that clip is genuine, and thats a real nice coin.
Things on Ebay are rather queazy right now. You gotta watch the auctions. You can get deals now if you keep your eyes open.

Ray

MarkInDavis

Just because it sold for $105 doesn't mean you could have got it for $106. Maybe the other bidder was willing to go to much more.

Broadstruck

I missed this the other day sold cheap too!

PaleElf

Went for more than I would pay for it.

Connecticoin

That actually looks like a rare bargain from this high volume seller of overgraded and cleaned raw crap -- If seanq thinks it is a genuine clip, then it most likely is.

Sometimes savvy collectors can cherrypick these types -- I think Coin Lt. picked off a nice Bust Quarter from Great Southern for only a couple hundred bucks that graded AU58.

seanq

It's without question a genuine clip. I didn't search the seller here yet but unless the issue was with non-delivery I cannot imagine I'd be disappointed with that coin from those images. I've purchased nice type clips from "centsles" on eBay with no issue, and his reputation isn't great either. If anything that rep might have helped hold the hammer price down.

I do agree that I might not have won the coin for $106, but if the purse strings were a little looser I'd have bid well over that. Honestly I would not have blinked if it had sold for twice the hammer price. Maybe you need to be an error collector to appreciate just how rare that coin is.


Sean Reynolds