AAAAAAARRRRGGHHH

harasha

From an ebay listing. 100% Positive Feedback. (10,114).

“HAS SOME TARNISH AS IT IS STERLING --FOUND IN AN ESTATE JEWELRY BOX, i RAN A JEWELERS ROUGE CLOTH ACROSS IT SO THAT IT WOULD HELP TO SEE THE DETAILS IN THE PHOTOGRAPH .”

Andres

And now its all shiny and like new , thanks for the polishing and buffing, great service, great seller

DoubleEagle59

That stinks!

Reminds me of a jeweller friend I have in downtown Toronto. A few years ago, he telephoned me saying he just purchased a whole bunch of old Canadian silver coins and had just spent a few hours polishing them on his buffer's wheel

bronco2078

This is a shame of course but it's a teachable moment.

Send a message and politely show them the error of their ways . Tell them how you found the listing (what you were searching for) and somewhere down the line if they get coins in on a regular basis they might turn up something you like and let you know about it. If they profit from your advice they will remember you

DIMEMAN

>>>Reminds me of a jeweller friend I have in downtown Toronto. A few years ago, he telephoned me saying he just purchased a whole bunch of old Canadian silver coins and had just spent a few hours polishing them on his buffer's wheel<<<

Stork

Makes you want to cry

krueger

Saw a Dealer at the Long beach show once the 90's. He had a box of several hundred nice vf to AU Canadian large cents.

He was taking one out at a time and hard hand rubbing them with a cloth between his thumb and index finger to get the grime and age storage haze
off of them . I picked up a few that he had worked on and they were all hairlined UGH!
I told him he was hurting the coins and he basically said he did not care people would buy them anyway.

In the early 70's .I saw a local BM dealer with a jewel lustre dipping factory so to speak in in his back room.
No toned coins in his shop. He said folks wanted bright coins.

Krueger

ormandh

Ouch! Just like a brand new used one. -Dan