To start.. She spells it gwapa but.. The word guapa in spanish means. A good looking/gorgeous woman. A tough woman. Edit* - Gwapa means a beautiful female in Cebuano Filipino, and also in Tagalog Last week I noticed an item that was listed as a Major Mint Error for $99.99 It definitely is not an error. It's clearly Post Mint Damage. I sent a simple message to the seller and this was her response.. Did she remove the item? Nope.. She lowered the price Here is another listing she has for a damaged mint mark and coin wrapper crimper damage to the surface .. $999.99
Or just totally ignorant. Many ebay sellers believe that they have an actual mint error. That's why I tell newbies that not everything that looks different, strange or weird on a coin is automatically a mint error.
Even eBay doesn't hold a candle to Etsy for sheer hilarity. Oh, you'd better hurry on that deal... there's only 1 available, and it's in 13 people's shopping carts! Be sure and check out his other listing, too!
Where do people that buy this stuff get the idea that these are worth anything? I miss the days when we didn't have so many con artists preying on the hobby.
Hard times comes to hard measures,some people are so desperate for money and are about to get evicted this is what they find the solution to be.
If that were the case, we could contact the seller and tell them that we have twenty dimes with the same error but will sell to them for $5.00 each, kindly letting them know that they could then turn around and sell them for $49.99 - $99.99 for a profit. If they truly thought that this was an error, they'd jump on that deal ASAP. But I'm betting they'd respond by saying that they will send you a shady money order for $2,000 and instruct you to take $100.00 out for the 20 error dimes that you'll send them and then along with the dimes, you send them $1,500 cash back, while telling you, since they are such nice people, to keep the other $400.00 for your troubles.
This seller is still trying to sell this damaged coin. Lowered the price again $29.99 when it's only worth 10C
I would consider it to be worth less then 10 cents, because I doubt it wouldn't be accepted in a coin machine. The only time I use coins is for parking meters, and I know from experience a parking meter won't except a dime that beat up and disfigured. I've tried it with those type of dimes, plenty of times.