Another Ebay classic

Barry

PT Barnum was right...

Wolfy00002

why won't these people bid on my stuff.

JadeRareCoin

That's a good one. I actually think that the "yard sale kid" believes that there's a weak S on the coin. When I was a kid collecting in the early 80's, I put aside about 20 1980-D Lincolns that have the traces of an S above the D. Coin World had publicized the error and I went through rolls of 80-D cents. Using my $5 microscope, I convinced myself that many had traces of an S. Twenty years later, I looked at the coins and got a good laugh. My eyes (and my mind) had played tricks on me. If you look at the images in the S-VDB auction, you can imagine many S mint marks if you look closely enough. Optical illusion.

Regarding the eBay auction that you linked, the coin is clearly just a 1909-VDB and nothing more. I hope that "the yard sale kid" is just a kid who doesn't know any better, and not an adult trying to run a scam. Either way, someone should email him and ask him (or eBay) to yank the auction.

roadrunner

Holy sheet man. This seller (back yard kid) must be high. He's selling a 1909s vdb that he got from a backyard sale (so he says).
The s is weak, but he thinks it's real...but he's not grader nor an authenticator. He looked at it with an electron microscope or something so he's done his due diligence...still no returns or refunds on this gem. It went for $300 to some newbie.

I checked out the newbies (at least I hope he is a newbie and not a long termer) other 3 or 4 purchases and he was buying raw 3 cent nickel double dies where I couldn't see anything from the photos.
Best yet, he bought 2 diff dated DD's and both auctions used the same photo to highlight the "faint or perceived" doubling in the legends. Wow, the same obverse die was used for 10 years (1871 and then in 1881). I think this should go to Coin World for a feature article.

I suggested to the buyer that he come to forum to check us out.
He's only spent $400 or so to date. Maybe he'll get away cheap.

roadrunner

K6AZ

Barry, I'm sure you have noticed the high bidder's user ID and know what to do.

Barry

Yes, Eric. First thing I noticed, and got his direct email from Cue Are Zed dot com. Gotta protect the brethren...