dont you love buying a proof

Hyperion

advertised in GEM state... getting it and having a fingerprint on it ?!?!

ARGH.

got a 1987 100 franc palladium coin for a bit over melt, my book said it could be valued @ 220-250.


but I guess GEM is technically MS65, so I guess it still qualifies.

Ill post a pic later, but I had to get that off my chest. I wasn't getting much sympathy @ work.

("you bought a coin for how much ?!?!?!")

secondrepublic

Send it to NCS (the conservation service of NGC), maybe they can fix it.

Hyperion

I was going to ask, but I thought once a print is on, it's on. Ill check them out, thanks for the suggestion !

laurentyvan

Don't you think the seller was a little less than honest?

Would you (or anyone else) have purchased this coin if the seller had mentioned that the coin was fingerprinted? Does it not then become an impaired proof and shouldn't it have been advertised as such?

Do you have any recourse to the seller? Was it by any chance cgb.fr?

I'm very sorry that what should have been a big thrill turned a little sour... the next one will be better.

Hyperion

that's an interesting question..

it was a dealer that I trust, and it's not obscenely marked, but I didnt' expect to see it.
again, maybe one of those deals where the price was so good I should have expected it.

(If I bought at a premium price I would immediately contact to return it)

it's a good enough coin and at a good enough price that I am going to keep it anyway..

of course, it's human nature to take that dealer down a notch...

Hyperion

(doublepost!)

if something is a proof and has no other problems than a fingerprint, wouldn't it still be GEM ?
I thought Gem was MS65 ? but that's MS... what's the equivalent of a Gem proof ? PR67+ ?

lordmarcovan

They struck palladium coins in 1897?

Hyperion

dyslexic tendancies?
1987.
sry.

lordmarcovan

Ah.

I would've liked to have seen the 1897 proof. It sounded interesting.