Did anyone of CT win this? It came up in my original search results last night, but when I went to immediately buy the coin it was already gone! http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-S-INDI..._Individual&hash=item2319501ec3#ht_500wt_1204
You could find a way to afford it, flip it for an easy large profit! At least a $1000+ profit for flipping this one!
I was thinking the same thing when I first looked at it. Seller did have a return policy too! Fairly good seller rating with many other graded PCGS coins.
The certificate number is a 1909-S in MS65RB. The PCGS site also states the coin is in a user's private set registry inventory.
We all know the Chinese fake slabbers steal valid numbers now... does the registry list the last time it was sold?
no dates or current sales are reported on the PCGS website. I'm not the expert but I do carry a printed list depicting all the PCGS slabs used over the years. The slab in the Ebay listing could be a newer slab than those listed in my printed list. It doesn't match any of them. The reverse seems to have "PCGS" and a "circular thing" on a large (label size) hologram. This was never used on the older PCGS slabs. You can also see the four corner pattern in the plastic which is from the older plastic slabs. Something might not be matching up on this Ebay PCGS slab. I hope someone else can chime in here because I'm not qualified to say it is a fake. It is just suspicious to me.
Thanks for the info. Im not a slab expert either, but Im intrigued by that info. The lighting is horrible in his pictures too, but if the slab is missing some key diagnostics, then its probably Chinese. You cant really see the coin at all.
Those four corner circles are still on the current slabs as well. Sometimes they show clearly sometimes they don't. This slab purports to be a recent one. I too suspect that it is a fake slab though.
I find this link informative about PCGS slabs: http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=222533
Big questions at this point: 1) Does the seller go through with it, or was it a "listing error"? 2) Is the coin legit, or a counterfeit coin/slab? 3) What else has the seller been listing? Is there a history of "too good to be true" deals? Is there a sudden burst of them, indicating that Something Has Changed with this apparently-reputable seller? I might've jumped on this, counting on Buyer Protection to back me up. But IHCs aren't as high on my radar as some other things.
