Strong/funny marketing ebay effort 1860-s quarter

fastfreddie

Need to read to appreciate...good luck!

1860-s

rhedden

1860 quarter mint at San Fran dust bowl, Yoda love.

CoinRaritiesOnline

That's a lot of typing!

Vbowling299

wow, too much reading = no bid

CEOcoinshopcom

This one is TOO MUCH.
The broken language sounds like every bad scam email I've ever gotten.
Just one word.....repeated, over and over.

Run, run, run, run, Forrest run.

Ok I threw in Forrest part.

Jcarney

I feel disturbed after reading that.

johnny9434

at least theres free shipping

Billet7

I want my five minutes back.

thecoinlook

Just trying to make a little money on it:

Coin he purchased

Pictures look a lot better, but a lot less revealing about the past cleaning.

roadrunner

That earlier link of that coin doesn't work for me.

Wow, what a write up! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have nothing over the investigative capabilities of the seller. If given a little more time I'm confident they could
produce the Civil War purse that this coin was stored in.

The auction doesn't even show the coin in a PCGS holder. Doesn't matter to me what the seller claims.

Justacommeman

Here is the Trueview. it's in a VF details (97) holder. Environmental damage. MJ

MsMorrisine

the first seller's photos look ED to me and it seems like a lot of words to plead a case that it is AT and to justify a numerical grade with little to back it up that word count.

coindeuce

I don't see the description as being out of line at all. The job of a salesperson is to promote their inventory in the best manner that they know. Certainly this seller's feedback has reasonable credibility, so what is the big deal? It doesn't cost anything but some personal time to ask the necessary questions of the seller and base a decision on the responses. The OP is known as a very knowledgeable collector of the series - maybe he could elaborate on his opinion of this offer?

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>Here is the Trueview. it's in a VF details (97) holder. Environmental damage. MJ >>



that makes sense as i figured the holder wasn't pictured because it was a details holder
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MsMorrisine

<< <i>I don't see the description as being out of line at all. >>




Please Note: The surfaces of this coin's field are flat everywhere and entirely absent of pitting or other structural damage.

This coin is absolutely corrosion free!

coindeuce

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<< <i>I don't see the description as being out of line at all. >>




Please Note: The surfaces of this coin's field are flat everywhere and entirely absent of pitting or other structural damage.

This coin is absolutely corrosion free!


GAAAAAAAACK!

segoja

NO where in that description does it state this is a problem coin.

If there is no issue with that description given the actual slab, then you hopefully you won't get taken by such poor descriptions.

IT MUST BE POINTED OUT THE ISSUES ON THE COIN. WHY DOES HE NOT SHOW THE SLAB????

Problems all over this listing

fastfreddie

<< <i>NO where in that description does it state this is a problem coin. IT MUST BE POINTED OUT THE ISSUES ON THE COIN. WHY DOES HE NOT SHOW THE SLAB???? >>


It sounds like seller doesn't have the coin back yet.



<< <i>The OP is known as a very knowledgeable collector of the series - maybe he could elaborate on his opinion of this offer

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Compared to many others on the board I am a novice in this series.

I thought this listing for a key date was amusing at best. Seller should come out and state how he feels and not beat around the bush with window dressing. He is entitled to say he does not agree witht he TPG assessment. I looked at his feedback too and it appears solid. I was not saying seller is bad. I commend his efforts to spin the grade in a favorable light. My favorite is this: "Many chemicals associated with the manufacture of leather are known to initiate and promote the "toning" [atmospheric corrosion] of silver coins. My coin, the coin I offer here, possesses absolutely none of the characteristic issues that are generally housed under the "environmental damage" designation."



Freddie

roadrunner

I don't know about the seller's knowledge of 19th century storage techniques. They do spin a pretty good yarn though.

The coin is corroded. That's the bottom line. Really makes no difference how it got that way. It makes it like most other existing 60-s quarters.
Considering the coin's tiny mintage and being from San Francisco, it's probably very likely the coin never made it back east to the Civil War. Now if the seller
had claimed it was in the 1906 SF Earthquake, that would be more believable....