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  • MoldnutMoldnut Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭
    He's got 8 offersimage
    Derek

    EAC 6024
  • 8 offers.You can come down but you can't go up.
  • baccarudabaccaruda Posts: 2,588 ✭✭
    Not a bad deal. ACG graded too.

    I like the way he's handling the slabbed coin with a white-gloved hand.
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    1 Russ POTD!
  • I just checked my wallet and I'm a couple bucks short. Oh well, maybe next time!
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
    seller edwinrd117
    lives in Annapolis, MD

    maybe I should ask to view it?



    it looks like someone has some hammers and dies made? Is anyone out there actively counterfeiting these now?


    The person obviously has never seen a real 11 cent piece.


    I love the story! Much more creative than bought from an estate or inherited from wise old grandpa.

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool ???
    Timbuk3
  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭
    Double denomination errors are cool, and I do think this one is genuine. It's just overpriced by a few orders of magnitude, that's all. Though you would get to buy it from a writer of bad fiction.
    --

    Ed. S.

    (EJS)
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I love the story! Much more creative than bought from an estate or inherited from wise old grandpa. >>



    I was thinking the same thing. image

    Russ, NCNE
  • For posterity:

    The Story of 1995 Penny On Dime/The Gratitude.

    It was drizzling in the early afternoon on a weekend on a February

    1988, before Valentine's Day. We had overcast skies. My auntie invited me to go to the shopping mall with her and two of my cousin. She drove the car while I sat in front and my cousins sat at the back.

    While we were inside the mall, my auntie told me to go back to the car because she forgot her purse. I went running back to the car because it was raining outside. I did not have umbrella with me. A four to five year old child running towards me from their car when a black speeding car suddenly appeared on my right. Instinctively

    , I grabbed the child before the car hit him. The parents were shocked with the sudden turn of events. After recovering from the shock, they thanked me for saving their beloved child. To show their gratitude for what I did, they offered me some cash, which I refused. I told them it just happened that I was there at the right time so just forget the whole incident. They asked my name, where I was heading for, and my address, which I gave to them.

     

    1995,

    Seven years after, a respectable gentlemen knocked at my door, I let him in on my humble condominium, he said that he brought something for me for Christmas.

    He opened an attaché' case with _________________________________________________________________________________and a white looking penny. He said that he was send by the family to show gratitude for saving the life of their child. He told me to choose between the CASH or the penny, I opted for the penny.

    I thanked the guy, Then, he got his cell phone and contacted his Boss. He handed the phone to me and I was able to talk to the person at the other line. He said, my son you just did a good job today. Now you own the Most Valuable Coin ( Double Denomination ) in the World.. just be careful on this one then, the man left.

    On the year

    2000, Mr. Alan Hager certified the penny as 1995 Penny On Dime, Mint, the inventor of certification slabbing coin experts in NUMISMATIST WORLD, Mr. Alan Hager personally graded it.

     

    '' IT IS ONLY ONE OF IT'S KIND.

    Note: This coin

    1995 Penny On Dime, Mint- Double Denomination Unique has no Duplicate. Stand alone Now & Forever, The Mona Lisa in Numismatist World! One of the Most valuable coin in the world.




  • What??only $100 e bay bucks? Theres something fishy about thisimage but I'll bid 11 cents on it anyway.image
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Decimal point is just 6 positions off to the right!image
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The highest BIN I've heard about was $75,000,000 for the Bahia Emerald.
    I wonder what's the RECORD BIN? image


    edit: nevermind, I see the thread title has been edited to read 'coin' auction.

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  • ebaytraderebaytrader Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭
    I hope he gets every penny of it.



    We've got a 1996 NGC MS66 in stock. image
  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭
    How do you guys find these great auctions on ebay? I must be looking in the wrong places. image


    Mike
  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The guy is a fruit cake. He's been peddling that for years. He's absolutely convinced it is worth a fortune. He's numb to lowball offers, scoffs at those who try setting him straight. Some folks live in their own little worlds.
    Lance.
    (edit typo)
  • So silly image $800 coin, wonder if he paid a lot for it...

    This is far cooler and likely obtainable for a lot less...

    image

    http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1136&lotNo=2384
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,249 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>and I do think this one is genuine. >>



    the reverse image shows the planchet fits the cent design perfectly, so it is larger than a dime planchet. the expert got it wrong on the slab.

    knowing that, it is the wrong metal for a penny planchet, it's not copper plated zinc nor is it an unplated zinc planchet, which would be another whole error, too, that the expert also missed.


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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
    note the "L" in Liberty on both coins:

    image
    image
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I hope he gets every penny of it.



    We've got a 1996 NGC MS66 in stock. image >>



    But yours in a NGC holder so it's probably overgrazed by at least a pointimage

    MJ
    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......


  • << <i>

    << <i>and I do think this one is genuine. >>



    the reverse image shows the planchet fits the cent design perfectly, so it is larger than a dime planchet. the expert got it wrong on the slab.

    knowing that, it is the wrong metal for a penny planchet, it's not copper plated zinc nor is it an unplated zinc planchet, which would be another whole error, too, that the expert also missed. >>



    It is actually a legitimate error coin. The design doesn't fit perfectly, look how close the A in AMERICA is to the edge. It is a dime planchet.

    It just isn't terribly rare and most certainly isn't unique.

    Regarding your next post...

    The centering on each coin is different and, you are comparing one picture taken straight on -> | vs. at an angle -> /.

    Trust me, its a real error coin in a stupid auction.

    (typo edit)
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You gotta admit, that is entertaining! image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.


  • << <i>How do you guys find these great auctions on ebay? I must be looking in the wrong places. image >>




    Actually, I just got lucky on this one. I was looking at some of LindeDad's auctions and saw this advertized along with some others at the bottom of the page.




    Cheers !






    edited my typing again.
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dang history is made my listing on the same page.......image

    Thanks for the pl;ug.

    image
  • I like the caption "bang bang bang skull break".
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You gotta admit, that is entertaining! image >>



    And graded by ACCUBULL to boot!!
    theknowitalltroll;
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Pretty soon a loaf of bread might cost more than that auction.

    image
    Good for you.
  • NumisMeNumisMe Posts: 841 ✭✭


    << <i>The guy is a fruit cake. He's been peddling that for years. He's absolutely convinced it is worth a fortune. He's numb to lowball offers, scoffs at those who try setting him straight. Some folks live in their own little worlds. >>




    He must be watching the auction live. He seems to decline offers almost immediately. image
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,726 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The guy is a fruit cake. He's been peddling that for years. He's absolutely convinced it is worth a fortune. He's numb to lowball offers, scoffs at those who try setting him straight. Some folks live in their own little worlds.
    Lance.
    (edit typo) >>




    You beat me to it, I believe he even joined here at one time, his handle was "pennyondime". I remember trying to talk sense into him in rec.collecting.coins, to give you an idea how long he's been at it.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • kimber45ACPkimber45ACP Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭
    Good thing he's wearing a glove.
    I'd hate to buy it and have a finger print the slab.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,537 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who needs cable or satellite television when we have here and eBay along with an internet connection ?
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
    here's his sound-less youtube video



    and if this wasn't written by a Chinese person, then I don't know what was:
    image

    circumstantial evidence:
    knows about pcgs, but not in pcgs holder
    wording says it is in a penny sized holder, but slab says dime sized planchet (I guess it was an unattributed broadstrike the expert also missed and that doesn't look like a broadstrike?)

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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,726 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    wording says it is in a penny sized holder, but slab says dime sized planchet (I guess it was an unattributed broadstrike the expert also missed and that doesn't look like a broadstrike?) >>




    A cent on a dime planchet will be a larger diameter than a regular dime, though probably not to the full diameter of a regular cent. The coin is struck by cent dies with a cent collar, so the planchet will expand under striking pressure more than if it were truck by dime dies in a dime collar.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    If you don't like the penny, how about $13M for this 'Long Lost Van Gogh'?


    Van Gogh
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,249 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>
    wording says it is in a penny sized holder, but slab says dime sized planchet (I guess it was an unattributed broadstrike the expert also missed and that doesn't look like a broadstrike?) >>




    A cent on a dime planchet will be a larger diameter than a regular dime, though probably not to the full diameter of a regular cent. The coin is struck by cent dies with a cent collar, so the planchet will expand under striking pressure more than if it were truck by dime dies in a dime collar.


    Sean Reynolds >>



    OK, then a question.... would the area around the rims look somewhat broadstruck then? (has that funny stretched look to it)
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  • ... but he only has to sell one ...
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,756 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>He must be watching the auction live. He seems to decline offers almost immediately. >>



    I believe eBay has an automated feature to decline offers below a value set by the seller.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,756 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a neat error but grossly overpriced. Anyone know what a realistic value would be for an error like this?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,726 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>
    wording says it is in a penny sized holder, but slab says dime sized planchet (I guess it was an unattributed broadstrike the expert also missed and that doesn't look like a broadstrike?) >>




    A cent on a dime planchet will be a larger diameter than a regular dime, though probably not to the full diameter of a regular cent. The coin is struck by cent dies with a cent collar, so the planchet will expand under striking pressure more than if it were truck by dime dies in a dime collar.


    Sean Reynolds >>



    OK, then a question.... would the area around the rims look somewhat broadstruck then? (has that funny stretched look to it) >>




    Yes, you should see some signs of metal flow around the edge of the coin, since both error types are struck without a collar.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • I emailed the seller this is there responce

    Here is one of the offer from one eBay ID___member since 2003 with 100 feedback. After this offer called eBay/Paypal with regards of his/her capacity If He/She capable for paying on the amount he/She posted on my message ebay Board.Dear edwinrd117,Hello, this seems like a good value, but would you accept $7 million? This offer recorded on January 12 2012, 0910 AM eastern Time.I also received an Offered that automatic declined for 100,000.00 And one thing more, Most Prominent Professional Expert in Numismatist agreed or behind of the COIN FACT ENCYCLOPEDIA/PCGS : Doubled DENOMINATION ERRORS.DOUBLE DENOMINATION ERRORS One of the most expensive, popular, and desired types of errors are the double denominations. This error happens when a coin is struck on a previously struck coin of another denomination. Examples are a cent on a struck dime, and a nickel on a struck cent. The most dramatic are those with considerable design visible from the original strike.- edwinrd117 Click "respond" to reply through Messages, or go to your email to reply


    SO WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK OF THAT?????
  • RaufusRaufus Posts: 6,829 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For a nearly $11M BIN you'd think that he would have had someone proof-read the listing who can write using proper english.
    Land of the Free because of the Brave!
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,249 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I emailed the seller this is there responce

    Here is one of the offer from one eBay ID___member since 2003 with 100 feedback. After this offer called eBay/Paypal with regards of his/her capacity If He/She capable for paying on the amount he/She posted on my message ebay Board.Dear edwinrd117,Hello, this seems like a good value, but would you accept $7 million? This offer recorded on January 12 2012, 0910 AM eastern Time.I also received an Offered that automatic declined for 100,000.00 And one thing more, Most Prominent Professional Expert in Numismatist agreed or behind of the COIN FACT ENCYCLOPEDIA/PCGS : Doubled DENOMINATION ERRORS.DOUBLE DENOMINATION ERRORS One of the most expensive, popular, and desired types of errors are the double denominations. This error happens when a coin is struck on a previously struck coin of another denomination. Examples are a cent on a struck dime, and a nickel on a struck cent. The most dramatic are those with considerable design visible from the original strike.- edwinrd117 Click "respond" to reply through Messages, or go to your email to reply


    SO WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK OF THAT????? >>




    yes, Chinese.

    I'm just trying to think of a way to view it in person.
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  • chinese it is...stir fried with a side of BULL$HIT


  • << <i>This has got to be the highest Buy-it-Now for a coin auction, ever... >>



    Maybe, but it won't even get you into the Top 10 in world currency . . .
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,328 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The guy has been spamming CT with the coin for about the past year.
    He feels it's worth more because of the holder it is in.
    Larry



  • << <i>Here is one of the offer from one eBay ID___member since 2003 with 100 feedback. After this offer called eBay/Paypal with regards of his/her capacity If He/She capable for paying on the amount he/She posted on my message ebay Board.Dear edwinrd117,Hello, this seems like a good value, but would you accept $7 million? This offer recorded on January 12 2012, 0910 AM eastern Time.I >>



    And he didn't jump on it with both feet and a net??? image


    This just keeps getting better. image

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