You're the winner! - That Nuclear Feeling!

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Zoins
Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 22, 2022 3:08AM in U.S. Coin Forum

An interesting feeling is when you see the "You're the winner!" message after submitting a nuclear bid and having it finish just at your bid!

How does it feel? :)

Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
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  • Pioneer1
    Pioneer1 Posts: 185 ✭✭✭
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    I was 5 minutes late to bid. Congrats ! I wouldn't have beaten you though. Non-nuclear on my end

    A So-Called Dollar and Slug Collector... Previously "Pioneer" on this site...

  • TomB
    TomB Posts: 23,185 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If I am willing to bid that high then I believe the coin is a good buy at that level so I would feel nuclear!

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  • pursuitofliberty
    pursuitofliberty Posts: 7,926 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How does it feel? Did I really just do that!?!! :D

    The most expensive coin I won at the ANA was at my max bid (exactly), which didn't show up until about an hour after the close (see Sheridan Downey's MB#54 bidding situations).

    It wasn't a "double nuclear" bid, but it was a "go big or go home" play.

    Since I won three others, there was a moment of intestinal fortitude in there, but I am absolutely glad I won her.

    She's a LDS coin, tied for CC#2 on the known census for the Marriage/Die State (#3 or 4 if you count the EDS coins), and certainly appears the nicest of the three 58's (or tied with the other PCGS coin - different look). I think she looks nicer than the Vanderbilt coin as well (a 61, and the only one ahead of her for the Die State).


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  • JMoo100
    JMoo100 Posts: 116 ✭✭
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    I had placed what I thought was a lowball bid that ended up winnign tonight and now I’m hoping that I didn’t miss something when grading / pricing it out. Other side of the same coin?

  • spyglassdesign
    spyglassdesign Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I've been on both ends recently. Lost one I thought was a great pickup but regret not going nuclear and picked one up going all in and it nearly got to my max.

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  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How does it feel when you realize that you are now buried alive in an expensive coin? :#

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I never had a nuclear bid go all the way up. Probably because my bid was tri-nuclear. :D;) But I always got the coin - and usually no more than three increments.... Once it was four. Still, I was happy. Cheers, RickO

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