I'm the one who bid 477 on it. Would have been more but i won this lot earlier that day....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=301645374156
Coins go in and out of fashion, and there's always a luck factor when buying or selling. I noticed that there isn't much demand for the Wings Down copper 10 kopecks from CM, even though there isn't much supply of them either.
Speaking off:
Enviable! My strategy involves limiting myself from collecting everything, I cannot even fathom having a narrow focus. For the A1 minors do you mean only the 10/25/50 kopeck pieces? That's very ambitious!
I didn't know you collected copper! I thought you were into crown sized silver and medals. Do you recall how much you sold it for? I picked it up for $250 + shipping.
There are strangely misaligned traces of a die clash right above the line. The line seems to follow the banner, is it the empty space between the bottom of the banner and the edge of the die?