Could someone enlighten me on this sellers.....

leothelyon

While browsing Ebay I happened upon this auction. This seller has other coins like this. Are these really true rarities? Maybe some kind of novelties? Link

Leo

FC57Coins

That looks to be a circulated war nickel that you can get for less than a buck.

Frank

Russ

Bwuahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!! Littleton is still around? I used to get ripped by them buying stamps from the back of comic books when I was a kid.

The real rarity is the little baggie with the stupid price printed on it.

Russ, NCNE

littlewicher

I would never, ever deal with Littleton coin company. They rip off people. I wouldn't touch any of their goods.

Russ

Okay, now this one really is rare! The seldom seen Buffalo nickel with the Ike obverse. One hell of a mule.

I love eBay.

Russ, NCNE

MadMarty

Wasn't Littleton the company that sold coins on approval in magizines in the 60s? They sold worthless coins to kids...

MrLee

I've seen several of this guy's auctions and he's using the apparent appraisal amount on the Littleton package for pricing but I think it's a parts or catalog number. There's no way a 1943 Mercury Dime in VG condition could be valued at $794.08.



Just an uninformed eBayer who's selling something he has NO IDEA about.

braddick

It is part of the control numbers Littleton uses.
Shame! Now, does this Seller know or is he instead in for a rude awakening when he discovers his coins are worth little over $1.00 each?

-I vote for scenerio number two.

leothelyon

There's no way a 1943 Mercury Dime in VG condition could be valued at $794.08.

Maybe there's a little something extra in them lil' baggies.


Russ
Didn't catch that mule. I only checked the dime. Wow, a different diametrical rev and obv muler.

Leo

Russ

In the interest of enlightenment, I sent him a gentle eMail.

Russ, NCNE

jhar

No these are coins that Littleton sends to it's "subscribers". I think Littleton pulled these prices out of their corporate hinies, if you want my opinion. The 1943-s in MS68 (this coin is perhaps a Good) isn't hardly worth a tenth of the asking price from the auction. This seller is clueless!!

coindaughter

Hey! I remember Littleton Coin and Stamp company! I sent away when I was a kid. I just checked my junk drawer and found a little envelope from them with a dozen worthless foreign coins.

Cool!

mnmcoin

The number has to be a catalog #...if you check in russ' post with the ike, the # that the guy is using for his value, on the ike looks like four digits starting with a 1 then the decimal and two more digits, so that would make the Ike like a thousand + bucks...has to be a catalog number.

I just checked an SBA in Littleton package and the number isn't there anymore.

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Bikingnut

He ended his auctions now. I really think he had no clue.

Russ

I heard back from him. Coins belonged to a friend of his. Neither knew anything about them. Nice guy who just ventured in to an unknown area.

Russ, NCNE

keets

............and the forum dragnet catches another unwitting seller. if you guys keep at it you'll put an end to that useless eBay watchdog, SafeHarbor.

al h.

RJB

This forum's members seem to do a lot more good for Ebay then Ebay's own Safe?harbor. BOB

airplanenut

While Littleton is a ripoff, I must say I wouldn't be here if I didn't send away for their merc and walker for $4.95 in 1997/6 (can't remember)... those two coins, with which I will never part, sparked a hobby which has grown to be much more than a mere addiction

DesertLizard

Littleton ripped me off as a kid too, back of the comic book thingy or maybe it was "Boy's Life" magazine.

Nothing like targeting young impressionable males huh?

MrLee

And another eBay seller's dreams of richs are shattered. Tsk Tsk Tsk.

Placid

Littleton is still in business.

Littleton

gemseeker

I thought I read on a previous message post that Littleton was the largest coin dealer in the US? Not sure if I read that earlier post correct or not.

relayer

If you look in the Sunday newspaper's PARADE magazine you'll always see Littleton ads for "introductory offers" of SBA's, Silver Eagles, etc. Buy one and get on their mailing lists!

richbeat

I'm looking at the scan of that buffalo/Ike "mule" and I see on the packaging "Buffalo Nickel-T2." What in the @#$! is a T2?

richbeat

Would that be a reference to the mound/plain varieties? I thought that only applied to the ones dated 1913.

braddick

Type 1 is the Buffalo on a plain, the type two has a raised line for the ground. (There really is a type 1 and type 2...).

airplanenut

but some dealers will say T2 for every buff... even though T1 only existed through part of 1913...

dbldie55

Littleton is still one of the largest dealers there is. They purchased that huge GSA deal a couple of years ago. Bought a couple of deals that involved millions of coins. A few years ago they sent me the entire rundown of Liberty Nickels from one of their purchases (involving thousands of them). I am they would be the buyers of the largest coin deals (by number of coins). They were the biggest buyer of SBA's from the mint until the government started pushing them again in 1999. David Sundman has a tremendous collection of error SBA's that came from the millions of SBA's that he (his employees) went through in the last 20 years.

All I have ever bought from them is the Dansco type albums for obsolete coinage (now Dansco is selling them again, but not at that time)

itsnotjustme

Braddick -
Reverse that! Type 1 is the mound, Type 2 is the plain.

I apply T2 to all but the mound 1913 coins.

smprfi

Don't waste your time or money!

dorkkarl

i'm still rolling on the floor over this one!!! littleton is like the biggest joke of a coin dealer in the whole friggin world!!!

and all their dorky little coin packets used to say " priced according to condition", ghout not necessarily the coin's condition.

gee, is anyone surprised the reseve wasn't met???

i can't hjardly type i'm laughing so hard!