thoughts on the Baltimore 2007 expo
Some random posting from the mind and experiences of a seated dime collector:
I have been replacing many of my coins in my Dansco set. Often I throw the
dups on ebay but the work and aggravation in selling $20 coins is not at all
worth it.
I have been placed some goodies with dealer to sell. With Chris now loaded with
S mints I am feel an urge to buy more and not finding them.
Ebay has had very little good stuff and there are some silly prices being paid
on some coins.
Last night a 39 Huge O went off for close to $300 but the coin had a scratch. A
nice 76 CC went of the other night but my bid again did not win.
I have nothing good I would want to part with but did sell my 74cc which I
upgraded with Barry's coin in a private sale along with a 54 O Shattered O which
I upgraded with a coin sold to me by another board member. I also sold a 40
shattered obverse to another board member. I was lucky enough to cherry pick
one. Not as high of a grade but the one sold (Purchased from JJ Teaparty) was
cleaned. Still a nice coin.
I think there is stuff being moved but not on ebay and I know a few dealer
pricelist are seeing some coins moved quickly.
This is my 2 cents for the day.
With the market still going strong a PCGS 1874 cc in Fine condition has been bid up to $20,000 plus the 15% buyers premium. That is a strong price. My guess is this coin is going to the #3 set at NGC (My guess may have been wrong!)
this week on ebay
drbobcoins on ebay
could have driven me insane! The down side of getting so many packages
of coins coming in is keeping track. I won a 1856 O ] which a coin I
have been waiting for. I emailed the seller as to where the coin is. The
told me the coin arrived.
I was calling the post office and they confirmed the package was in fact
delivered. I thought for sure I would remember a nice coin as that if I
open the package. I then dug up the garbage to see if I did in fact have
the package in hand ( and maybe threw the coin out in error) to my
surprise I did have the empty package. Now I was concerned, I had no
idea what I did with the coin. It was not in any of my albums, so I went
to my boxes of coins to photo, coins to sell, and even coins to
attribute and nothing. I went threw my laundry to see if the coin was in
my pants pockets and still nothing. I had no idea where the coin could
be. So I figured maybe the package was empty but then I would have
noticed it when I opened it. So now what? I said the only logical thing
to do is go over all the coins I have got in this month. There it hit
me. I had 2 1876 cc dimes. This is a date I love to buy along with the
75 S becuase they come with so many neat varieties. The problem is I
only remember buying one of these this month and I have 2.
I then looked up what the seller had sold. After spending 20 minutes
trying to figure out how to look up a sellers closed auction it hit me
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11958&item=110106513655
I have this coin in hand which means after 10 hours of ripping my
collection apart, cleaning out my home safe, clearing out my office from
top to bottom I don't have the coin.
I don't know if I am happy or mad!
The aftermath is the dealer did the right thing and another choice 1856 O rests in the Feldman collection
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