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Buffalo nickel rip-off scam now running on ebay

BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,726 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited July 10, 2025 3:21AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Please copy and paste this URL into your browser and do a search on it if you want to see a Yuge scam on ebay right now.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/406030746405?itmmeta=01JZSWQCFGGHFSTPMTB145G05C&hash=item5e89518325:g:tigAAeSwyU1oWhf-

The user has a picture of a nice dateless 1916 doubled die obverse buffalo nickel with the date worn off but still one of the nicest
1916 DDO,s without a date that I have ever seen. This dude had four auctions like this, all similar, and two of the auction ended with someone paying the biggie bucks to take this deal. All the auctions had the same picture. Two of the four auctions ended yesterday and when I went to bed last night only two were running and he added another one after that. So now three are still running with two sold.

I forgot to add that the user does not say this is a 1916 DDO but this is evident by the thickly doubled ribbon ties

Of coiurse there are no returns and and I can just hear their groans when they look at they coin they get and find out it is not
the coin as pictured! Any thoughts on this one? Oh and I did message the seller and he said I would get the coin as pictured!!

Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"

Comments

  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ouch. Buyer beware. He is describing a 1929 nickel.... and that is what is what the buyer will certainly get. Nevermind the the photo shows the doubled die 1916....

    ----- kj
  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 10, 2025 4:24AM

    I'm not sure it's an intentional scam. The guy is just an idiot. Look at his wheat cents. And he's calling it a 1929 Buff for some reason.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,152 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Composition - copper and the rest of it, hard pass

  • 2ndCharter2ndCharter Posts: 1,699 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Whenever someone touts something as a "good investment", I always ask "if it's such a good investment, then why are you selling it?" :o

    Member ANA, SPMC, SCNA, FUN, CONECA

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,263 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @2ndCharter said:
    Whenever someone touts something as a "good investment", I always ask "if it's such a good investment, then why are you selling it?" :o

    Because he needs new glasses...

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