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Check out this Ebay auction for a Bust Half

DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,379 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I wonder if this is a true auction?

The picture may be hijacked because this half looks like an ms66!!

No way I'm placing a bid on this. (I think there's only 4 hours left).

http://cgi.ebay.com/1832-bust-half-GEM-BU_W0QQitemZ230302113993QQihZ013QQcategoryZ11969QQssPageNameZWD4VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em124
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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,361 ✭✭✭✭
    Looks like it might have been cleaned at one point, and looks to me like it's about an AU53.
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    San Diego is a port of entry isn't it?

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    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
  • ManorcourtmanManorcourtman Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe whizzed? Altered surfaces galore.
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't know that much about bust coinage, but it just looks too good to be true.

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  • SeaEagleCoinsSeaEagleCoins Posts: 3,262 ✭
    Run Forrest Run!!!!
    Re: Slabbed coins - There are some coins that LIVE within clear plastic and wear their labels with pride... while there are others that HIDE behind scratched plastic and are simply dragged along by a label. Then there are those coins that simply hang out, naked and free image
  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    I would not touch this one.
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No Return either.

    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • jdillanejdillane Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe whizzed? Altered surfaces galore. >>



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    Definitely looks whizzed.
  • thatboyaintrightthatboyaintright Posts: 408
    For someone who claims to know nothing about coins, he sure has sold a lot of them lately.. I'd bolt !!
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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A coin that is worth over $500.00 is a coin worth holdering. Bust coinage is not scarce in AU and with as many that are available, why would you ever go raw? I did it once, paying a premium for two really nice looking bust halves, and both coins came back in a body bag. The seller was happy to sell his raw coins at full retail and I was dumb enough to take the bait and pay the consequences.

    Live and learn. If it is bust coinage and in an AU grade and NOT holdered, and if you aren't looking at the coin in person, you are getting worse odds than at a slot machine in Vegas.

    Tyler

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