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Skrill90Skrill90 Posts: 264 ✭✭✭
edited October 24, 2019 12:27PM in U.S. Coin Forum

raised rim on a incuse coin... need I say more? Can we report and get rid of this garbo

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1908-Indian-Head-5-Dollar-Half-Eagle-Gold-Coin/293281910009?hash=item4448f6ccf9:g:yKEAAOSw1V9dp2EO

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It sold.

  • MFeldMFeld Posts: 14,146 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2019 12:42PM

    @Hemispherical said:
    It sold.

    I think I have seen sold items removed by Ebay, before.

    Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,218 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is the one I posted about in the other thread a day or two ago

  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,218 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MFeld said:

    @Hemispherical said:
    It sold.

    I think I have seen sold items removed by Ebay, before.

    Well, that's too late, usually. Works out for the seller sometimes even. They sell an item AND don't have to pay final value fees, lol. Sometimes the buyer decides to keep the item even if ebay removes it after purchase.

  • SweetpieSweetpie Posts: 493 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2019 1:30PM

    Seem liked a pawn shop operation based on his other items for sale plus an almost 99.6% positive reviews.

  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Please add this and brief explanation to my thread

    LCoopie = Les
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  • Skrill90Skrill90 Posts: 264 ✭✭✭

    @jwitten said:
    This is the one I posted about in the other thread a day or two ago

    @jwitten sorry didn't see a thread about it. Caught my eye earlier while browsing sold listings 😔😔 hopefully the buyer can get his money back.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,485 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Skrill90 said:
    raised rim on a incuse coin... need I say more? Can we report and get rid of this garbo

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/1908-Indian-Head-5-Dollar-Half-Eagle-Gold-Coin/293281910009?hash=item4448f6ccf9:g:yKEAAOSw1V9dp2EO

    Just as a technical point, there are a few genuine Indian Head $2-1/2 and $5 coins out there with what the Mint calls "finning" and the hobby used to call a "wire rim." It could occur if the hammer die was slightly misaligned in the coin press, allowing metal in the planchet to be squeezed up around the edge of the die for a partial arc on the side of the die that was displaced towards the center of the coin.

    This is not intended to be any indication of an opinion of authenticity, good or bad, regarding the coin in question.

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,488 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2019 5:45PM

    Counterfeit. Check out the short outside arms on stars 4, 5, 6, 12 and 13. The slight off-center strike tried to cover for that.

    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 ... ?
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,508 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This one is also pretty bad:

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good commentary with the picture/link (sadly it sold)....Cheers, RickO

  • Skrill90Skrill90 Posts: 264 ✭✭✭

    @BuffaloIronTail said:
    This one is also pretty bad:

    Pete

    @BuffaloIronTail
    Whoa!! where did you find that one???

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