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VF-30 in my opinion, but the EF grade has been “degraded” so there is aways hope. An EF should show virtually all the design with overall light wear. An EF-40 does not need to have any mint luster.

Painted coins in the US back in the day were often "house money" used in jukeboxes, to be returned to the bartender/manager when the jukebox owner cleaned out the coinbox.

I doubt they had jukeboxes in communist Poland, but your coin could have been painted by anyone for any reason.

I remember the changeover very well.

Sniping is best. Give it your best shot in the closing seconds. Otherwise, your high bid becomes a target, if placed too early.

Just like eBay. Snipe it with your maximum bid just before it closes.

I recently started selling off part of my collection on eBay. I have quite a bit of feedback as a buyer, but not much as a seller. Over the past month I have sold 46 coins, but only 19 buyers have left any feedback. I know that when I was actively buying I tried to leave feedback immediately unless there was an issue. In those rare cases that I didn't leave feedback immediately, eBay would send me almost daily reminders to do so, but I'm not sure if eBay still does this.

I have tried messaging the buyers myself 5 days after delivery, requesting that they leave positive feedback when they have time and I will do the same, but so far that has only worked with one buyer. I know that a bunch of you have more experience selling on eBay than I do, so my question is does eBay feedback even matter anymore? As mentioned I have a considerable amount of 100% positive feedback from the buying side so is there any benefit to growing my feedback numbers as a seller? If there is a benefit, do any of you have advice on how to get coin buyers to leave feedback?

Anything food safe is coin safe.

iwo jima ought to look great in proof

@jmlanzaf said:

@erwindoc said:
I like the fact that there is no live auction! In fact, I have all but stopped using Heritage since I would win the internet auction, only to lose the "Live" auction. Drove me mad, so I just quit bidding! I might go back to their internet only auctions but why bother.

I don't care if it's live or internet, but a new bid should extend the time. Most real auctions work that way including sites like Proxi-bid. Timed auctions areg good for sellers or buyers

No such thing as "good for sellers or buyers." What's good for one is, by definition, bad for the other, since they have diametrically opposite interests with respect to pricing.