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I'd like to nominate this for the top 10 stupidest eBay coin auctions of all time.

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    StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like they used white-out on it.
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    123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    All I can say is "the-word" has left me speechless.
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    dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    <I'd like to nominate this for the top 10 stupidest eBay coin auctions of all time.>

    I'll second it.image
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    LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    That is one of the most ugly coins I have ever seen. image Like anyone would pay money for that. It looks like someone attacked it with a pencil eraser! Not to mention all the spam!

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    BruceswarBruceswar Posts: 2,869
    That has to be the worst coin I have ever seen.
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    HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,465 ✭✭✭

    I think it's vanilla frosting.
    yummie!
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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The seller needs to get his eyes checked or needs to get new glasses but other than that its pretty image.
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    mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,560 ✭✭✭
    Well, it is Profoundly Rare.
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    MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    "Profoundly rare"™.... image
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    PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭✭
    $2400?...$2400?...$2400?


    Um, NO....NO...NOimage

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    ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭
    To quote Frances McDormand's character in Fargo...

    I think I'm gonna barf...
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    GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭
    Russ.... it's got lots of frost..............!!!!!!!!!!!??????
    ......Larry........image
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    TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,094 ✭✭✭
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    lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 9,334 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like they used white-out on it. >>



    I was going to say dropped in a can of white paint and the painter used a screwdriver to clean it off... nice "gem" Russ...image
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    1907Quarter1907Quarter Posts: 2,770
    yep-that's pretty stupid. anything with a dancing chicken(remember that?!) is equally so...
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    krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Did that seller get mentioned here sometime in the last couple of months? I know I saw one of his auctions not too long ago (it kind of leaves an impression) and it would probably have been from something linked here.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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    seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    circulated proof
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    123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭


    << <i>circulated proof >>

    Your on the right track SeatedDime. It is a Impaired Proof!!!
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    ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529 ✭
    i asked the seller if it was a joke.


    the response:



    << <i>LISTEN, I AM A CHRISTIAN AND RESTORE ANCIENT HOLY BIBLES AS A SPECIALTY. LOOK AT MY OTHER AUCTIONS. THE WHITE FROSTED FRANKLIN HALF IS GENUINE AND WAS NEVER, REPEAT, NEVER TOUCHED. THE WHITE FROSTING IS NATURAL! I FULLY GUARANTEE IT!

    GOD BLESS!

    DAVID / BOSTON MASS.
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    RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, the seller did say the coin was white, can't argue with that. But it's powerful ugly image and right now selling for silver value rather than the $2400 $2400 $2400 $2400 $2400 $2400 etc.

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

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    joefrojoefro Posts: 1,872 ✭✭
    I kept waiting for the punchline...

    I like how he took the time to paint up between each individual letter in the legends. It's also funny how the frosting is placed in complete reverse of where it should be on a DCAM. Its all in the fields and none on the legends! image

    Haha someone should take him up on his guarantee of original surfaces.


    What is NOT funny however is he is another CHUMP using his religion as an excuse of why he couldn't possibly be a scammer image
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    GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085 ✭
    He is either smote smited or stoned...image
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    I don't know Russ, I agree that this auction is stupid, and lame, and pathetic, but I've seen many stupider on Ebay.

    What about the guy who was selling a mystery sock full of coins and showed a picture of himself in his underwear, with a bag over his head and a large dog humping his leg?
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    nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    "i asked the seller if it was a joke.


    the response:



    << LISTEN, I AM A CHRISTIAN AND RESTORE ANCIENT HOLY BIBLES AS A SPECIALTY. LOOK AT MY OTHER AUCTIONS. THE WHITE FROSTED FRANKLIN HALF IS GENUINE AND WAS NEVER, REPEAT, NEVER TOUCHED. THE WHITE FROSTING IS NATURAL! I FULLY GUARANTEE IT!

    GOD BLESS!

    DAVID / BOSTON MASS."

    I want to apologize for myself and all the other Christians out there. I don't think David in Boston has been reading the bible.
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    numonebuyernumonebuyer Posts: 2,136 ✭
    mmm.... frostyyyyy.....
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,845 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about this one:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300015837384&fromMakeTrack=true

    TD
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    ThenewguyThenewguy Posts: 755 ✭
    I thought silver came out looking a bit darker then that after being swallowed and passed..image
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    lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 9,334 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's the link Capt...

    The Captains Link

    I feel a Jay Leno thing coming on....Crap we found on ebay...L
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    johnsim03johnsim03 Posts: 992 ✭✭
    Russ:

    I can't even figure out if it is returnable. The image hints at that but the terms most definitely
    do not (small print). Not that I would bid on it but this looks like a fun one to mess with, if
    someone was interested in that sort of thing, just to test the eventual eBay interpretation
    of a very confusing listing...

    John
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    SFC, US Army (Ret.) 1974-1994
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    beepbeep Posts: 968
    Oh man, I just bought a signed bible from this guyimage

    What a scammer I seeimage

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    This guys an blight on hummanity.
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    GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    wow, I can't tell if they are serious
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    rec78rec78 Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like white-out to me.
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    What is a HALVE??? When has the government ever issued a HALVE coin? GEEZ.
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    BigAlBigAl Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭
    what's almost scarier is his 99.5% approval rating
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,020 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    JustaRookieJustaRookie Posts: 566 ✭
    This is just.....?? I am at a loss for an appropriate description other than the recommendation that the seller needs to put the crack pipe down and quit huffing paint! This is alomost as bad as the auctiions that are selling dryer lint which someone out there is actually buying?!?!?!?!
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    ttxpttxp Posts: 576
    You have to love that blinking The Arc Of The Covenant thing there, that's class............
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,510 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "PROFOUNDLY RARE" image

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    eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭
    I thought that it was against ebray policy to use embedded links in the auctions.

    BTW....that coin looks like the Peace Dove took a crap on it.
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    HeywoodHeywood Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭
    Did he use a paper knife to spread that frosting?


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    does the truth become error because nobody will see it. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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    segojasegoja Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭✭
    Untouchable! Not even worth melt!
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    AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    The look of that POS is reminiscent of what old silver coins looked like when, as kids, we would rub them with mercury. They'd shine like the sun for a couple of days, then start looking just like this one.
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    ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭
    I hate to call a Continental Dollar a POS, but man, this one is testing me...
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    ttxpttxp Posts: 576
    The auction is now closed?
    "To know the road ahead, ask those coming back"
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,737 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>To quote Frances McDormand's character in Fargo...

    I think I'm gonna barf... >>


    You betcha.

    Fits one of my criteria of sellers to avoid, too. "Uses more than two fonts or any red text in the description of the lot."
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,845 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What about my spittoon entry, with the compleat history of the spittoon all the way back to ancient China????????
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    RBinTexRBinTex Posts: 4,328 ✭
    Where's the "got my vote" icon thing-a-ma-jiggy"? image
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    GoYankeesGoYankees Posts: 1,025 ✭
    maybe he meant chocolate frosting?

    Seriously, that seller needs to say "NO" to drugs.
    Ex-modern Collector.

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    ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529 ✭
    I got another response.



    << <i>I HAVE ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS THAT SAYS IT IS A PROOF WITH NOT ONE IOTA OF DAMAGE.

    WANT TO BET? PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS. I AM IN BOSTON, YOU CAN COME LOOK AT IT IN PERSON.

    YOU ARE LOOKING AT PICTURES, I HAVE IT HERE IN MY HAND.

    I ENDED IT, SICK OF ALL THE "EXPERTS".

    I AM SENDING IT TO PCGS

    SLAN! GOODBYE IN IRISH

    DAVID
     >>



    I guess he'll be having crow for dinner once the BB comes back from PCGS

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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Only idiots and slimeballs send eMails in all caps.

    Oh, and AOL users.

    Russ, NCNE
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    RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How will we ever know what PCGS says about this coin? Certainly the seller isn't going to tell us!

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

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