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Does this 1945 Merc look likes it's in a slab to you guys?
Russ
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"1945 FSB King Of FSB in Short Set Tough Coin"
The seller says in the listing "This is a unslabbed coin", but it sure looks like it's holdered to me. This one doesn't pass the smell test.
Russ, NCNE
The seller says in the listing "This is a unslabbed coin", but it sure looks like it's holdered to me. This one doesn't pass the smell test.
Russ, NCNE
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Nice trick, but I have seen too many 45 Mercs.
Brian.
<< <i>"1945 FSB King Of FSB in Short Set Tough Coin"
The seller says in the listing "This is a unslabbed coin", but it sure looks like it's holdered to me. This one doesn't pass the smell test.
Russ, NCNE >>
oh, it's in a pcgs slab alright and it aint designated no fb either and it's got strong center bands but will NEVER go...it's in a $15 pcgs 1945-p ms66 holder....this one is going to be interesting. guy is only 15 minutes from us....schemer....AND a definite connection with another nearby duo of shillers and schemers who buy slabs, crack em, sell em raw for 2 grades up getting one grade down but still 1 grade more than the holder it was bought in,etc,etc lots of commems,that sort of stuff....a very common and easy m/o to put finger on....beechslap is in order
send me something nice
i love surprises (nice ones like coins or chick-fil-a gift certificates)
"People my hate you while you are alive, but they will love you when you're dead."
---I said that actually
<< <i>It might just be a possibility that the guy doesn't know what slabbing means. He has only had 33 sales. Im probably wrong
WRONG, fully in the know full fledged schemer
Brian
ANA LM5200
He's getting $285 ?? I'd be happy to sell all of mine for $285 and I'll throw in shipping/insurance.
Gonna be one major unhappy buyer, or a clueless one who will be crushed down the road.
Sad...........
John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
Walt
Brian
also that penny looks like one I had that was whizzed and copperplated
ebay 3037231342
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41086&item=3037231342indianhead picture/scam?
Marc
Mark
On the other hand...here are the problems I see:
There is NO RETURN POLICY.
Quoting prices that are clearly for slabbed coins. He says the coin is NOT slabbed.
There is the question of the overall grade. 66??? Maybe....
jom
<< <i>OK, here's the deal. This is a RARE coin folks. Regardless of whether you think it's a scam or not 1945 dimes with a near-FB go for as much as $200 a pop. $285 is NOT unreasonable for a true 66. Someone said this "wasn't even close" to FB. Not true, it is VERY close It won't go FB but it IS worth a premium.
jom >>
Hmmmm, really? Maybe I need to reassess the half dozen or so I've got in envelopes in the closet.
John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
<< <i>It might just be a possibility that the guy doesn't know what slabbing means. >>
Oh, this one knows what slabbing means. He's scamming a raw Accented Hair Kennedy right now that's covered in milk spots that he's calling "little white specks or lint" while also calling the coin a deep cameo and perfect. I sent him an eMail telling him what the spots were, and that the coin would grade about PR66 and isn't a DCAM.
This is his response:
<< <i>Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:23:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: james alford <antiquerecord@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Question for seller -- Item #3038704478
To: sales@compucheap.com
white spots could be as you say i own a min of 5000 slabbed deep cameos and yes it most certainly is deep cameo not cameo.i buy them to resell and invest in but don't care about proofs as a whole so i won't argue about white spots except i was able to blow some off.if i would have chosen with my camera i could have made the deepest cameo coin you ever saw but unless there is a reason i don't alter my photo's so be careful how you judge a photo.by the way are you a buyer or just a auction conisseur.and don't get me wrong i don't mine criticism but maybe i should have been done i a question rather than someone stating it as if were a fact from the almighty or something.and just so you will know i could have hidden white spots with my camera also.i'm not trying to make something be that it is not.with camera or words.you didn't know about deep cameo so that's all i know for sure about you so i quess i will file the rest of your advice in the same place.thank you your majesty!
james >>
I'd bet a dollar to a donut this is a seller that's been NARUed under a different account and is back. Most of his auctions reek.
Russ, NCNE
I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.
Always looking for nice type coins
my local dealer
Brian
Bidders' list
He's a member here , isn't he?
Brian.
subject:re:1945 merc
Hi James, Jeff's Coins, Inc. over here in Jackson. A guy from Pcgs and Ebay both emailed me wanting Mike or myself to come look at the 1945 dime you have run on Ebay in a Pcgs slab selling it as raw but wanted me to see it in the slab first before you cracked it out to send "raw" to the bidder. They are both watching this auction (Pcgs and Ebay) so I told them I would be happy to. Please advise your earliest convenient time for me to do so. They said they would contact the buyer with my findings. Thanks, Jeff
<< <i>Hmmmm, really? Maybe I need to reassess the half dozen or so I've got in envelopes in the closet. >>
Yeah, maybe you should.
jom
so make that an ms64 merc dime $10 bucks, add in a premium for fairly decent bands and you may can push 50-75 bux out of it for someone to have a decent 45-p.
it's kind of like a 50 proof 65 cam half that is alllllllmoooooooooost a dcam.....well it's worth a premium
over the typical example but not dcam money by any stretch.....
or a 65sms lincoln with decent mirrors,noticeable light to moderate contrast,"kinda looks cameo"
yeah, worth a premium,sell em all the time for 25-75 bux, but get one in a pcgs 65 or 66 holder with "cam on it" spotted,fugly or not and watch it go for some stupid money...