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1909 S VDB, Zero feedback and all private bids!!

OgdenOgden Posts: 435 ✭
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What do you guys and gals make of this auction? Somehow doesn't seem quite right, does it? Or is this something new? Auction to end in under an hour!

Ogden

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2215418269&category=39456

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    XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    link


    It looks nice. I'm going to sell off some coins tomorrow to get cash to buy it!
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    OgdenOgden Posts: 435 ✭
    Sorry edited to include URL.Link
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    airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think PT Barnum would be pleased to see he's correct again.

    If it's geunine (I don't know the die characteristics to check), then that color says something is WRONG
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    geb209geb209 Posts: 375
    Scam alert. Money order only! Payment must be received in 5 days! Im selling on behalf of someone else!
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    nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    There are more red flags flying here than at an old Soviet Union May Day Parade. STAY AWAY!
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    atarianatarian Posts: 3,116 ✭
    fake alert i dont know too much about coins but i can tell this is one of those after market re-pros. WAY to much detail to be original
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    braddickbraddick Posts: 23,422 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Scam alert. Money order only! Payment must be received in 5 days! Im selling on behalf of someone else! >>

    Registered yesterday and is already familiar with One Day auctions and Private Bidders format.

    peacockcoins

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    OgdenOgden Posts: 435 ✭
    I guess with the private bids no one can trace for shill bidding. Hope someone doesn't get screwed.
    It's just a shame that this time of thing goes on. Getting cheated will certainly turn alot of people off bidding on ebay. Not surprisingly.

    Ogden
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    08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
    I'm a rookie coin nut and this scares me
    Location: selling to clear
    Not an expert but rates it ms64????

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    mas3cfmas3cf Posts: 100
    Looks to me like an added mintmark... wrong shape, and not even entirely vertical! Plus, it looks like you can see a seam between the mintmark and the field. Funny... his name is lots2sell, but he has no other auctions!
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    OgdenOgden Posts: 435 ✭
    Sold for $1325.00. Wonder if we will ever see any feedback on either side?????????

    Ogden
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    merz2merz2 Posts: 2,474 ✭
    Ogden
    I wouldn't have bid on that auction in any way.As was pointed out,just to many red flags.
    Don
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    slothman2000slothman2000 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭
    Looks like a fake to me.....
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    clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
    Looks like a fake.
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    clw54clw54 Posts: 3,816 ✭✭✭
    Is it even a real coin? It looks too perfect.
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    mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,013 ✭✭✭✭✭
    could be genuine...the mintmark has the position and tilt of genuine svdb's from die #2...

    irregardless, I wouldn't buy one of these from someone with zero feedback and the other red flags that have been noted...

    that "V.D.B" looks kind of funny to me...can't really say why...just a sense about it...

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    mas3cfmas3cf Posts: 100
    The VDB is in the correct off-center position, but you're right; it does look goofy... I didn't want to say anything because I couldn't quite put my finger on it, either! Would need to see the coin in person, I think...
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    timc67timc67 Posts: 204


    that "V.D.B" looks kind of funny to me...can't really say why...just a sense about it... >>



    What does V.D.B mean? Sorry for the ignorance, I'm a ROOKIE coin collector.
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    mas3cfmas3cf Posts: 100
    It refers to the letters on the bottom of the reverse, which are the designer's initials (Victor David Brenner).
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    JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    Victor D. Brenner, the designer of the coin.

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    timc67timc67 Posts: 204
    Oh, okay. Thanks! I'll be on the lookout for these. I think I got rid of one the other day when I bought a soda...OH MAN!! (joke)
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    MintstateMintstate Posts: 254 ✭✭


    << <i>Sold for $1325.00. Wonder if we will ever see any feedback on either side?????????
    >>



    We'll never know. He's already been NARU'ed
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    nccoinnccoin Posts: 606
    The seller has already been NARUed. What a crook. I am really getting of this s*** on ebay. There is so much fraud going on there of all sorts there is no way the "ebay police " can keep up with it. At least they caught this guy.

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