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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    a few but my coffee is still brewin
    0 feedback
    56 pr67 pcgs ogh
    showing a beat up 54
    then sayin the 56 is in vg
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,619 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no photo of slab front and back as required
    no certification number as required
    zero feedback and no other items for sale
    picture of coin does not come close to meeting title description
    six bids, yet no posted replies to questions that were surely asked
    misspelling in description (good indicator for a foreign seller)

    Here's where he got the info for his scam

    No Way Out: Stimulus and Money Printing Are the Only Path Left

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,807 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Anyone notify e-Bay yet?

    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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  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,619 ✭✭✭✭✭
    reported for listing violations.

    No Way Out: Stimulus and Money Printing Are the Only Path Left

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,767 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The thing has six bids. image

    Assuming that they were not made by his brother in law and other shills it goes to show that there really is a sucker born every minute.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,569 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I didn't even bother checkin' the link. The word "ebayski" made me raise the white flag. image
    edit to add:
    After clicking on the link and studying it, I can see why the "sell something like this" feature isn't a good thing. And yet, the quirkiness of "world wide ebay users" remains about the same.
  • fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,902 ✭✭✭✭✭
    5

    No rear photo, no feedback, rambling sentence, no other items for sale, no returns accepted.

    +4

    misspelling as another pointed out
    picture of a 1954 "
    not 67 quality pic. "
    no cert number "

    me bad hitting at .555
    It is not that life is short, but that you are dead for so very long.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,569 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    10) It made news on the U.S. Coin Forum



    kind of a Jay Leno thing.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    low bid thus far, no slab shown, 0 feedback ( ok, you have to start somewhere ), no returns. blah, blah blah (thats a freaking proof?)
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I count 8 flags a flappin'image
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    he might just be an idiot also and you are missing a bargainimage
    LCoopie = Les
  • BubbleheadBubblehead Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭
    image

    Too many!

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