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This auction from Russ kills me!

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1381560054

I rarely bust out loud with laughter, but this one did it!
Buy/Sell/Trade Rainbow Morgans

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  • RLinnRLinn Posts: 596 ✭
    Link to Russ
    Buy the coin...but be sure to pay for it.
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    link

    al h.image
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    you'll see that thing again in an ACG slab!
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    bad russ!!!!!image

    i noticed all the hits and i wonder what it would be if you had the artificial bracketed in the listing title.

    al h.image
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    tried to bid, but the $9,750 reserve was to high!
  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    Russ, are you sure its AT? You aren't using deceptive advertising to scam some poor seller are you? image
    Think I'll bid - I can't pass up a good story!image
  • TWODOGSTWODOGS Posts: 1,419
    I'm REALLY interested in this coin, but before I bid I need to know, is that [ARTIFICIAL] wear on the hair over the ear and eagle's breast? If it's [NATURAL] wear and not [ARTIFICIAL] wear, I don't want it.
    J.C.
    *******************************************************************************

    imageimageSee ya on the other side, Dudes. image
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Russ, that's great. Even if it's not colorfast, I like the way it looks.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    What is the Forums own JFK man doing messing around with Morgan Dollars.
    You lie down with Morgan Dollars, you get up with ATs. Bearimage
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Russ---
    My wife and I attended the Kent coin show for all of about twenty minutes on Saturday. It's funny because my wife (bless her heart) was kind of hungry and irritable, but the only coins she commented on were the group your Morgan came from. She pointed at the three remaining and said "Those are pretty!"
    I glanced at them and said "Yeah, and they're AT."
    Wife: What's AT?
    Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.... long story short, never try to explain artificial toning to your wife at a coin show when she's hungry and would rather be anywhere else, including stranded on the moon, or Elmo's guns and ammo show.
    Ultimately, she didn't believe me anyway. Sigh. When we got home later that day, there was your scan. Then she really didn't believe me. "Well, that nice man, bought it. It must be real!"
    I tried to explain that you are not a nice man, but rather an incredible eBay profiteer, laying in wait to fleece the innocent, but she still doesn't believe me.
    I guess I'll have to bid on the coin. She thinks it's pretty.
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Boy, You start calling Russ a nice guy, then he will be sweet and kind and cute and the
    next thing we know, Russ will turn into a bear. Bearimage
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Bear--
    I didn't call him a nice guy. My wife did and she doesn't know him.

    Okay..okay, wait a minute, here it is.... image

    My first time ever official use of an emoticon!!!!!!
    It's all down hill from here. image
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Clank - Congrats on your developing technical skills,
    It took me 7 months to learn how to do that. Bear
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    You know, the nice thing about the fact that I don't earn my living on eBay is that I can have a little fun along the way.image For me, that's what this hobby is all about. The bonus to that is that I can also do a little public service at the same time which allows me, as a newb, to give something back to the hobby.

    Clankeye,

    The dealer who had these seemed a little irritated when, in a voice loud enough for everyone around to here, I asked to see one of his "oven baked" Morgans.image When I told him I'd take it, he about crapped a brick. Actually, though, looking at the coin I don't think it's heat, more likely chemical. Not sure if it's the right word, but the toning seems "thick", like it's coated on, rather than embedded.

    Russ, NCNE

    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Russ--
    Nobody at that show was really exhibiting a Happy-Happy Joy-Joy attitude. I've seen livelier crowds at the Dept. of Licensing.
    Too bad it was your first experience with a coin show.
    I still think you should go to Tacoma. That one will be better.
    Carl
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,459 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It took me 7 months to learn how to do that.

    What?....to smile? Little infant babies smile immediately right after they're born...or could that be gas.
    But anyway, I thought bears always have a smile on their faces.........man, what will I hear next?

    Leo

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

  • danarchydanarchy Posts: 284


    << <i>PLEASE, IF YOU BUY THIS COIN, AVOID GETTING IT NEAR WATER! I'm not sure if it's colorfast. >>



    Lmao, now that's too funny
    image It's Her's
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Leo - Bears are serious animals and we dont smile. What took me 7 months
    was to learn how to use the emoticons, PM and all of the
    other good stuff hanging around.
    You are talking to a bear who first learned how to turn on a computor
    only a year ago and it is very slow going for me. Bear
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    Russ,

    One thing I don't understand. What makes the obverse and reverse [ARTIFICIAL]. image

    Are [ARTIFICIAL] obverse and [ARTIFICIAL] reverse synonyms for counterfeit? image

    Are you selling [ARTIFICAL(LY)] toned coins or{ [ARTIFICAL(LY)] toned [ARTIFICAL (counterfeit coins)]}? where is Dorkkarl when you need him?image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Pushkin,

    It does appear that in my efforts to squeeze in the word [ARTIFICIAL] as many times as possible, I committed a gramatical faux paus.image

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭
    Russ,

    No problem - I was confused, as usual.

    My cat also has "four paws".image
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool enough I found myself in a trance and bidding!

    peacockcoins

  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Pat,

    Did anyone ever tell you that you're completely bonkers?image

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image


    PS- Hey, Clankeye- are you perchance implying that those of us who use excessive emoticons are morons? imageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimage

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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Lordmarcovan---
    Oh my word, no. I finally learned how to access the function. So who would that make the moron?
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • TonekillerTonekiller Posts: 1,308 ✭✭
    What is the reserve?

    TBT image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    TBT,

    The reserve is stupidly high because I don't want to sell it - $150.00. Although, with all the action going on I'm beginning think I should have set it higher.image

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>TBT, The reserve is stupidly high because I don't want to sell it - $150.00. Although, with all the action going on I'm beginning think I should have set it higher.image Russ, NCNE >>


    Who's Bonkers?!? You take the time to list an auction on a coin you don't even want to sell!!
    image !!

    peacockcoins

  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    Thanks, Braddick ... perhaps you can knock down the reserve! I just read a thread where Russ said he loved this (ARTIFICIAL) coin and darn if the king of the bottom trollers is not in hot pursuit! My kind of auction ...
    The Ludlow Collection (DCAM/CAM)
    The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)

    image
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Thanks, Braddick ... perhaps you can knock down the reserve! I just read a thread where Russ said he loved this (ARTIFICIAL) coin and darn if the king of the bottom trollers is not in hot pursuit! My kind of auction ... >>



    RGL: I don't know whether to be flattered or feel strangely disturbed. image

    peacockcoins

  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    Now that you mention it, braddick, I, too, feel strangely disturbed for the absurdity of what suddenly appeals to me ... I guess I should rue appreciating the personalities of a couple of the board's true characters! image
    The Ludlow Collection (DCAM/CAM)
    The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)

    image
  • TonekillerTonekiller Posts: 1,308 ✭✭
    We all have got to get a life. image
  • osirisMMIIosirisMMII Posts: 225


    << <i>Russ,

    Is it just my imagination or are the colors on that bad boy changing already? >>



    Russ - I gotta go with baseball........... I think it's darker than your original post and definitely darker than when I saw it Saturday!!! Your right about not heat treated....... you could scrape this color off..... kinda like when you were a kid and you planted those magic rocks and they first started growing........ image


    Loooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn that firstbase ump is blind!!!!!!!! There goes the hat....... there goes the umpires hand up - EJECT!!!!!! **ugh** Hold it..... hold it........ Lou's got the bag..... he's pullin' out firstbase....... he's lettin her fly!!!!! Hold it........ he's pickin' it up again and........ firstbase is airborne again....... FLY....... FLY AWAY!!!!!!! imageimageimageimageimageimage Looooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuu!

    Extra innings three games in a row???!!! Damn Texas!! Damn umpire!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ahhhh....... SODO MELVIN?????
  • freebluefreeblue Posts: 82 ✭
    Russ,

    I vote for you as THE PCGS Entertainer of the Year!!

    image Tim
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    You people need to stop bidding on this coin! I don't want to have to track down a replacement.image

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC

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