Watch out for vice jobs!

IkesT

https://www.error-ref.com/squeeze-job-or-vice-job-or-garage-job/

A vice job is a coin that has been squeezed or hammered against another coin. This imparts an incuse, mirror-image impression of the other coin. Vice jobs should never be mistaken for true Mint errors, yet people are still getting fooled by them.

A current vice job example from eBay:

Bochiman

Nice spelling in that note..."jewlery" "differnt"

Does "RBI Coins and Jewelry" even exist (I haven't tried looking for it).
If it is a "legit" business, it is very scummy

Fraz

Seller has a knack for finding them.

oih82w8

Kinda reminds of me an advertisement " Antiques made daily".

Manifest_Destiny

@IkesT said:

Fraz

@IkesT said:

Kinda like another TPG “business plan” we saw recently.

Glen2022

Interesting that there is no business name, address, or phone number on the letter of authenticity. Highly suspect.

Crypto

@Glen2022 said:
Interesting that there is no business name, address, or phone number on the letter of authenticity. Highly suspect.

Do you really need to look that deep into it when the concussion is not only intentionally vague but bogus too? Even if it is a real place it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on

dcarr

That bogus letter makes it not just a "vice job", but rather a "Miami Vice Job".

NeophyteNumismatist

A few thoughts:

• I love the "quick notes" footer on plain computer paper
• The misspellings and punctuation errors are great
• No signature on the letter, no address, no contact information of any kind.
• Google searches for the shop or "Robert Ivans Coin Dealer" show no results

and lastly.... no scam sale would be complete without photos of DIRTY FINGERNAILS!!!!!!

mr1931S

What a joke. Fall for that 11 cent piece carp maybe one deserves to be taken.

Smudge

12 bids? Wow.

Some_of_it

And this?

davewesen

that item is not on eBay
sellers closed auctions ->https://ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fss=1&_saslop=1&_sasl=jeffsharaklamarb-6&LH_SpecificSeller=1&LH_Complete=1

lcoopie

What did Donnie Brasco say?

Some_of_it

https://www.ebay.com/itm/386956192940?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=wL0joQgRSRO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=m4QuvBnHQYC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

IkesT

@mr1931S said:
What a joke. Fall for that 11 cent piece carp maybe one deserves to be taken.

You were fooled for many months by a fake 1909-S VDB cent, long after everyone told you it was fake. I guess you still haven't learned your lesson. Perhaps if you had received neither a replacement or refund for that coin, you'd be more sympathetic to others in the same situation.

As for the carp, you are truly the King of Carp on this Forum.

lermish

@IkesT I agree we should consider your nominee but I really think we need to put our heads together and get a consensus here.

IkesT

@lermish said:
@IkesT I agree we should consider your nominee but I really think we need to put our heads together and get a consensus here.