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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JewelryPicker, post: 9783728, member: 20513&quot;]obviously everyone else missed it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I actually won that box for $6.&nbsp;&nbsp; The lot with the mesh purse and other sterling items, I paid $12 for that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>it’s usually a pretty competitive online auction, with gold &amp; silver running right up to their scrap values.&nbsp; Sometimes blasting way beyond scrap price for items not worth more than scrap.&nbsp; Any time I go in for preview there’s multiple people examining the lots of jewelry with loupes &amp; scales.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>the purse got missed because the markings were crudded over.&nbsp;&nbsp; I really can’t give a legitimate excuse why the coin pin got missed by other bidders, although the auction staff missed it too</p><p><br /></p><p>win some, lose some</p><p><br /></p><p>it’s a pretty good feeling when you spot something that everyone else missed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Years of learning a hobby pays off big sometimes </p><p><br /></p><p>the flip side though is I have probably missed many items through the years, and someone else is happy because they found it.&nbsp; The good part about that is, you’ll never know that you missed it, so there’s never cause to get upset[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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