Hypothetical: Two collectors with opposite goals
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Say you were a man (or woman) with essentially unlimited means to acquire any coin, at just about any price for the set you are working on.
Let's also say that with this great financial freedom you have assembled the very best collection of YY series.
Not every coin in your collection is a Top Pop, but your never-ending goal is to upgrade with the higher grade when an example comes to market (auction, dealer, etc)
You are insatiable in your quest (& many know this) and will stop at almost nothing to acquire these upgrades; your wantlist is given to every major (and/or minor) dealer in the country.
One day, you hear rumor of one of these Top Pop (say 1/0) coins at a dealers table on the boure of a large convention.
You hastily make your way over to Dealer XX's table and ask if the dealer truly had the coin and if so tell him you would liketo buy it.
Dealer XX reply's back that he just sold it minutes earlier to another collector who after purchasing responded with:
"I will not let the collector (you, the insatiable collector) of series YY ever have this coin because I don't want him to ever reach his goal"
(The individual who bought the coin does not collect the YY series)
(The End)
Now for the questions:
1) Does anyone know of something like this ever taking place for a similar circumstance?
(bought from a dealer for the same reason, or someone bid higher and higher in the auction just to see if the other collector would break at some point)
Let's also say that with this great financial freedom you have assembled the very best collection of YY series.
Not every coin in your collection is a Top Pop, but your never-ending goal is to upgrade with the higher grade when an example comes to market (auction, dealer, etc)
You are insatiable in your quest (& many know this) and will stop at almost nothing to acquire these upgrades; your wantlist is given to every major (and/or minor) dealer in the country.
One day, you hear rumor of one of these Top Pop (say 1/0) coins at a dealers table on the boure of a large convention.
You hastily make your way over to Dealer XX's table and ask if the dealer truly had the coin and if so tell him you would liketo buy it.
Dealer XX reply's back that he just sold it minutes earlier to another collector who after purchasing responded with:
"I will not let the collector (you, the insatiable collector) of series YY ever have this coin because I don't want him to ever reach his goal"
(The individual who bought the coin does not collect the YY series)
(The End)
Now for the questions:
1) Does anyone know of something like this ever taking place for a similar circumstance?
(bought from a dealer for the same reason, or someone bid higher and higher in the auction just to see if the other collector would break at some point)
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He recently died, so I guess the grudge is over.
I have never heard of this happening- but I guess it's possible in the coin world.
-Randy Newman
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
One collector wishes to put the highest grade set together and the other wishes to prevent the set from being formed?
Sounds like a good reason to avoid Registry participation.
The British Guyana 1c stamp, one known, was shown pictorially to have been two different
stamps. Rumors, never verified but almost certainly credible, were that the owner of the first
one bought the second and either destroyed it or put it away in a safe place.
JET
I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
<< <i>1) Does anyone know of something like this ever taking place for a similar circumstance? >>
Something like that but not in a vindictive way. A dealer I know has a top pop super key date. A real one of a kind. When he used to do the "registry thing" he had the #1 set. He is well acquainted with Mr. #2 and doesn't really care for him. He once told me almost anyone with a ridiculous over priced offer might be able to get the coin, unless that offer came from Mr. #2. Not because he would lose #1 status but because he just doesn't like the idea of the other fellow ever owning this hollowed coin. Well maybe that is a little vindictive.
As soon as this sort of spitefulness gets involved, I'll just satisfy myself with something else.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
The best part of it all is that I got the car for $40 from a friend a few months later.
So-I would not do something like this specifically TO do that, but when I loose a bidding war with someone, I take solace in the fact that I made them pay more for it then they would have otherwise