Coin collector in the news

bigmountainlion

https://www.wate.com/investigations/newport-mans-ebay-account-frozen-after-sending-scammer-24kt-gold-coin/

There isn’t any 24kt state coins made by us mint

bigjpst

So now we know the news will report anything without any research. The guy got scammed for a 24kt plated state quarter that the “Bank of Newport” guarantees is authentic. The guy got scammed when he bought the quarters and when he tried to sell them.
Sad.

WillieBoyd2

Another headline on the same page:
Tennessee farmer loses $15,000 in online cattle scam

csdot

What an awful story. Both the underlying story being reported on, and the actual write up in the story that left so many questions unanswered.

vplite99

That is a sad story.

WAYNEAS

Truly it is another rip off.
Sorry for the seller who purchased the fake coins to start.
Wayne

dunkleosteus430

I saw this, read it, and laughed. Seriously, just a few minutes before reading this post. The seller got scammed when he bought them, then he scammed someone when he sold them.
It is sad that he is in a tough situation though. That's not what I laughed about.

ricko

Wow... Look what happens when knowledge is lacking.... And no research is performed. Cheers, RickO

JWP

This story is almost as bad as the story about the elementary student that took a $2 bill that his grandmother gave him to pay for his cafeteria lunch. Cafeteria worker said this is going to be counterfeit because it didn't pass the counterfeit pen test. They took the student to the office where student was arrested. Sometimes you wonder about the intelligenceof the people that are working in these schools. The $2 bill was printed before any counterfeit currency technology was created, along with the counterfeit detector pen.

LanceNewmanOCC

this is what is shown in the video. there were few more but they are all the same thing essentially.

jesbroken

Typical news story of the day.
Jim

derryb

there are no 24K gold state quarters. There are tens of thousands of gold plated coins. This is what was bought and sold by the person in the story. If he described it as a 24K gold coin and did not say gold plated then yes his item was not as described but I can't see how it is a counterfeit unless the buyer misreported it to ebay.

Some_of_it

I didn’t know cattle were online. Times are changing.

CaptHenway

@WillieBoyd2 said:
Another headline on the same page:
Tennessee farmer loses $15,000 in online cattle scam

I did not know that cattle were allowed to have internet accounts.