Funny FUN story . . .
Russell12
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I often put eBay items on my watch list, like the one below, but I do not like to buy expensive coins on line. My wife and I make coin shows as part oi our travels. We where just at the FUN show and I saw a wonderful Lincoln double struck cent and I bought it. After we got home, i was checking my eBay stuff and saw a coin just like the one I bought (they marked it no linger for sale). I did not realize it was the same coin at first. What are the odds that I would find it at a show! Maybe I should have also played the lottery.
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It actually happens quite often, particularly at a FUN show. It happened to me with a VG8 1874-CC half I was considering buying. The odds increase with coin scarcity.
well, we are going to the ANA Atlanta show, time to put more coins on my eBay watchlist
It would have been even funnier if the coin on eBay was shown as being half the price that you paid at the FUN coin show.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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Did you buy the coin from Sullivan or another dealer? That would’ve peaked my interest if it was available from 2 different dealers at the same time
I did buy it from Sullivan (I figured it out later)
How about one coin offered by two dealers?
Sometimes they break containment. Sometimes they find each other, try to communicate. Doesn't last long, never more than a national coin show or two.
They'll use specific phrases. Smiles going on a little too tight. Laugh track timing. It's subtle, but in essence, they're screaming at each other. Trying to find the boundaries. Pushing, gently. Wanting the bubbles to pop, wanting to try to be more.
We used to clamp down. But...The collecting public loves it. Small doses, sure, but The prices satiate so good after an occurrence. So we curate it. Give them walls easily scaled. Doors that unlock if you jiggle the handle.
They think they're building towards something, independently. They think they can work together, get out. But it's just another coin show after that, ya know? One single solidary coin. Two dealers. One closes a sale, the other setting up for another day.