PVC damage to coin bought at The Coinhouse Auctions?
migueldelrio
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Greetings!
Bought a coin not so recently at Auction No 16 from The Coinhouse Auctions in Belgium on Sept. 30th which Peter Eyckmans so kindly posted on Nov. 4th, and subsequently received the coin Nov. 16th.
Expected a coin resembling this photo posted for lot 574:
Wouldn’t have bid for the coin given its visible imperfections except that this coin is difficult to obtain in higher grades and, at 50 Euros, what could go wrong?
These are photos of the coin actually received:
Notice that some identifying features of the idealized coin are also present in the actual coin.
Coin has the appearance of being sprayed with a corrosive mist, possibly to hide the latent finger prints.
Could the evenness of the pitting of the surfaces of the coin the result of storage in a PVC holder and subsequent removal of the PVC deposits?
The 50 Euros bid price turned in to over $100 once shipped via PayPal and registered mail.
Imagine using an auction house to pawn off junk coins rather than taking the coins to a scrap dealer!
Attentively,
MiguelDelRio
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