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Some e-bayers will bid on anything:1909-svdb

TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Listed as nice coin with some obv. scratches and rev. pitting,BUT IT DOES NOT DETRACT.Some of the nicest key lincoln cent on e-bay.$410.00 and 7 days left in the auction.linkimage
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    That's some serious cabinet friction.
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    many collectors do not graduate past the "hole filler" mindset. I would estimate that the majority of collectors seek "an example" rather than a "problem free example"
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  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    I would not have paid anywhere near $400 for that scrap.image
  • curlycurly Posts: 2,880 ✭
    I could see some YN buying it for his first key date and having a special place in his heart long after the pain of paying for it is gone.
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  • ricmanricman Posts: 313 ✭✭✭
    I wonder how many stiches it will take to "close up" that chin???image
  • rjsrivrjsriv Posts: 256
    AH yes- another powerscrewer at workimage
  • GFourDriverGFourDriver Posts: 2,366 ✭
    Hit every branch of the ugly tree during that fall, didn't it?

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  • lonelyplonelyp Posts: 1,634
    Well hey, it's better than the one I don't have image


    I still wouldn't bid on it.
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  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    Anyone suspicious about all the bubbles on the surface? Sure looks like a potential out-and-out counterfeit to me. One expensive lesson, about to commence...
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Worries me that it's a counterfeit. I've noticed, and sent emails to this seller, on
    a counterfeit $5 Carson City he was selling. Good pic and it was OBVIOUS, but he
    didn't pull the auction and just blocked me instead! Yep, the problem went away!
    Oh my,
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  • BurksBurks Posts: 1,103 ✭
    I'm all for buying low grade key dates but man, that thing has just been brutalized!
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  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    They claim the "old obverse scratching" does not detract, and I agree.

    It repulses.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • kwmorgankwmorgan Posts: 967 ✭
    Man, in this day and age, I wouldn't even consider touching an '09-S VDB unless it was in PCGS or NGC plastic.
  • AlixTCatAlixTCat Posts: 1,276
    Why the interest and bidding on this "coin?" I just don't get it. One could get a much nicer example for a little more money if they looked around. Couldn't they?

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Key dates are absolutely nuts right now. Even the doggiest trash is bringing the bucks. Here's a 16-D I sold recently:

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    It brought $680!

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