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Surfing around I ran into THIS

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    image America's grading , says so on the holder! image
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  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭
    Good grief! image
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139
    Well, if it stays around there, bidders are pricing it around MS65. Might be or might be MS64. We know, and hopefully the bidders too, that it is not MS68 according to most knowledgeable graders. I've bought a couple SGS slabbed Morgans on eBay -- ut paid for the grade I put on them and did ok. 1881-S is a coin that is not remarkable to find as a gem and is definitely not one that is commonly messed with. It is likely a perfectly fine uncirculated Morgan and maybe even a full gem. Personally, if I was *yawn* interested at all in the coin, I would have stopped arounf the 63/64 valuation. Such is eBay. Again, if it doesn't ramp up to multiples of the current bid, it is hardly the worst coin deal on eBay.
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  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165
    I suppose so Coxe. You would think that bidders know not to go more than 64/65 on it.
  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,869 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Unfortunately-Yes they can. You cannot save a dummy from himself.image
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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Less than 2.5 hrs to go and it hasn't reached the reserve yet. Maybe everyone will end up saving their money.
  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165
    I actually cannot believe that the seller placed reserves on this stuff. image
  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    He put a reserve on it because he overpaid for it. He is now trying to find a bigger fool to make his profit. Sadly, he probably won't find one.
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,615 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SGS is NOT the Sheldon Grading Scale.
    People are that dumb, though.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess that gash across Ms Liberty's cheek keeps it from grading higher than MS68. image

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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    I wonder if I ask the seller to put me on his blocked bidders list, if he would do it. I'd hate to bid on something else of his.
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    thats not a 68!










    supposed to be a 70!......suspect its a counterfiet "SGS" slab...use caution!
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,749 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We bought a whole run of the first 35 Proof state quarters in both copper-nickel and silver in those SGS holders that the guy had paid something like $17,000 for from a telemarketer. We just busted them
    out and sold them as singles.
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  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    I wonder if the seller believes the sh!t he's shoveling in that description!

    coins MS-63, MS-64 on a good day; sure as heck aint a MS-68 unless SGS has gone over to the 100 point system!
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Less than 2.5 hrs to go and it hasn't reached the reserve yet. Maybe everyone will end up saving their money. >>






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  • segojasegoja Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭✭
    The dumb part is the reserve!!!

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  • Classof67Classof67 Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭
    This coin has a market value of $21,450.00 to $22,500.00 in MS68

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  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭


    << <i>People cannot possibly be this dumb, huh? image >>



    Why can't they? They are everywhere. image

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  • Classof67Classof67 Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭
    Oh, and I forgot:

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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,141 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Surfing around I ran into THIS

    People cannot possibly be this dumb, huh? image >>



    This is the first SGS slab that I've seen not having a 70 grade.....SGS is slipping!!!!!image
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  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165
    << This is the first SGS slab that I've seen not having a 70 grade.....SGS is slipping!!!!! >>

    Rumor has it that they are tightening up their standards.
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Read the sellers negative and neutral feedback on Toolhaus - everyone is either a moron or an a$$h@le... Caveat Emptor.
  • He, she, it has a very limited command of the English Language, wouldn't you say?
  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,484 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've seen dew1111 shill bidding Abomb's auctions, must be one of Abomb's sock puppets.

    I even e-mailed him and asked him about the shilling, no reply.
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  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,484 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This coin has a market value of $21,450.00 to $22,500.00 in MS68 (Sources include Redbook, Greysheet, Coin Values, etc.)

    In a respectable TPG holder, not a SGS slab
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139


    << <i>This coin has a market value of $21,450.00 to $22,500.00 in MS68 (Sources include Redbook, Greysheet, Coin Values, etc.)

    In a respectable TPG holder, not a SGS slab >>



    ....and which ones report MS68 values? I never see them and they don't make sense for 19th century coins anyway as they are thinly marketed.
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