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Is This A Joke? EBay Seller Advertising damaged Or Counterfeit Buffalo Nickel

WalkerloverWalkerlover Posts: 912 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 14, 2023 11:06PM in U.S. Coin Forum

This seller is asking $500!! for this worn damaged or counterfeit Buffalo nickel. Here is the description. Guy should be banned from EBay


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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That’s quite a sales pitch!
    Gotta love it!! ;-)

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,275 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They even misspelled "nickel". :D

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  • GreenstangGreenstang Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks looks like it was used for B-B gun practice.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 15, 2023 3:31AM

    @MFeld said:
    The description reads like it was generated by AI.

    The description spelled nickel properly unlike the rest of the listing where it's spelled nickle so you're probably correct.

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  • MarkKelleyMarkKelley Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you're not catching anything, you're still fishing.

  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    just another way to part suckers with their cash unlucky many will fall for such things as this

    https://www.omnicoin.com/collection/colind?page=1&sort=sort&sale=1&country=0

  • NeophyteNumismatistNeophyteNumismatist Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 15, 2023 5:26AM

    At least they didn't't give it a cute name like, "Machine-gun shot buffalo variety". The names drive me more nuts than anything said here. It is funny that the seller pretty much states that all of the negative attributes add value.

    The sad part is, eventually... someone may buy it. The good news is that it will not be me.

    I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.

  • burfle23burfle23 Posts: 2,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Curious why the OP suggested counterfeit?

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,389 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rare is the seller. Reminds me of the last two words one hears from an idiot ; duh... "Watch this !"

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,472 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 15, 2023 6:31AM

    @PerryHall said:
    They even misspelled "nickel". :D

    @PerryHall said:
    They even misspelled "nickel". :D

    I think one can spell it both ways 🤔

  • Glen2022Glen2022 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭✭

    There is a fool born every minute.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ungraded and uncertified adds to its allure??

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It has been suggested in various threads that some people might be using eBay to launder money by listing and selling cheap items at inflated prices. The seller part of the laundering ring thus has a verifiable source of his income.

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,984 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you for my laugh of the day😂😂😂😂

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a few rolls of circulated, common date Buffalo nickels. I never knew that there were some family heirlooms in there. 🃏 You learn many wonderful things on these boards.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 15, 2023 11:00AM

    @burfle23 said:
    Curious why the OP suggested counterfeit?

    There is a rectangle surrounding the date that I have never seen on another Buffalo Nickel. Perhaps it’s a way to change the date on false die with a drop in like Joseph Merriam used on his Tuttle’s Restaurant and Harvey Lewis sutler dies? The reverse looks odd. I don’t have a photo of a 1937 Buffalo Nickel.

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  • WalkerloverWalkerlover Posts: 912 ✭✭✭✭

    In all seriousness this guy needs to be expelled from EBay for attempting to perpetrate outright fraud. Different from people selling coins at exaggerated prices. This guy is trying to get $500 for 5 cents and that is if the coin isn’t counterfeit and not even worth 5c.

  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,222 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:
    Ungraded and uncertified adds to its allure??

    That's why we think it's A.I.-written. Only a current-generation A.I. would write something so stupidly and obviously wrong, with such assertive confidence in its correctness.

    Likewise, the fact that Buffalo nickels are listed in the Krause world coin catalogues as KM# 134 is something no actual coin collector or coin seller in the US is likely to ever be aware of, but it's something the A.I. can find out easily enough via an internet search.

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  • FrazFraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There are better deals. (Wash off after searching that part of eBay.)

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,482 ✭✭✭✭✭

    God forbid if the seller ever ran across a 1937-D three legger.

    I kinda wonder how they would pitch it.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,914 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Greenstang said:
    It looks looks like it was used for B-B gun practice.

    This. I have some coins I used for target practice when I was a kid that have the same damage.

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  • JWPJWP Posts: 23,034 ✭✭✭✭✭

    High priced "RARE" PMD

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  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,311 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 25, 2023 4:28AM

    It’s a spoof on the sticker game?

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  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BuffaloIronTail said:
    God forbid if the seller ever ran across a 1937-D three legger.

    I kinda wonder how they would pitch it.

    Pete

    Probably as a normal 37D. THAT'S the one you should buy.

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