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funniest coin description you've seen lately?

LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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“Original and unfussed.”

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pretty much any copy I write for a coin. image
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    say what!







    “TOOTH FAIRY RECOMMENDED”



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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I saw one that said Rainbow and Pastel in the description. The coin had bland tan crust. Whatever.
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners. :smile:
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "key date" on a 1943-D dime!image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    'Old and moldy'....They were actually dug cents....Cheers, RickO
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "My grandpa gave me nine rolls of cents for Christmas." There was a "1909-S Lincoln" at the top of the roll and a "VDB" piece, both probably from China, on the other end.

    It's amazing how many "young eBay sellers" with Chinese replicas got them from their "grandpa." One fellow, who said he was that only grandchild that had in interest in "grandpa's coins" claimed that all of the better coins that were in "placards" (slabs) had been sent to "an east coast auction house." The only trouble was the "coin" he was offering, was a $20 St. Gaudens gold piece counterfeit in a counterfeit PCGS slab. If the coin had been genuine, it would have been worth over $20,000. I guess "the east coast auction house" missed that one.
    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 ... ?
  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    an email from eBay... a few days after "watching" a 1927-S 10c in PCGS MS62/CAC:


    SAVE $565.01 + FREE SHIPPING
    You watched at $569.00. We found one similar for $3.99.

    1927 S Mercury Dime 90% Silver *Fine*

    $3.99 for a limited time.
    1 left at this price.
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Let's fluff up the verbal pillow to support astronomical price (in my estimation, after reviewing HA prices realized) on a piece of early gold slabbed as "cleaned/repaired" on eBay:

    “REMEMBER, PRICE CHARTS LOSE MEANING FOR PREMIUM QUALITY RARE COINS. PREMIUM QUALITY COINS ARE WORTH PREMIUM PRICES -- ANY COMPETENT NUMISMATIST WOULD AGREE. PLEASE NOTE, THE PHOTOS ARE TAKEN BY A CAMERA WITH A LENS THAT UNNATURALLY MAGNIFIES THE COIN AND WITH IT SURFACE MICRO-IMPERFECTIONS, AND TO THAT EXTENT THEREBY DISTORTS THE FINAL IMAGE. SUCH SURFACE MICRO-IMPERFECTIONS ARE NOT VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE. THE POINT BEING THAT THE COIN'S REAL TIME, REAL LIFE APPEARANCE IS DISTINCTLY BETTER THAN THE UNNATURALLY MAGNIFIED PHOTOS. PLEASE KEEP THIS IN MIND AS YOU VIEW THE PHOTOS.”

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