Hilarious coin grading on Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1888-Libert...284425?hash=item5d67413209:g:XiEAAOSwuzRXdC4U

The seller called it AU.

 

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Must be right. Seller is a PNG member with 99.9% positives on over 37,000 sales. Of course, the U key is close to the G key on the keyboard!
Cal

 

Wow. I've bought from them before too. That is so bad I almost wonder if it was a duplicate listing they forgot to edit the condition part.

 

It is AU. Almost Unrecognizable.

 

But the seller even says "About Uncirculated" in his description. And the reverse looks like it was found in a cement parking lot with all them scratches!

 

I am not as knowledgeable concerning coins but I am learning every day by this sie, reading and studying but I have to say what that person wrote is the biggest load of bulls**t I've ever heard

 

Might have just copied the wrong listing template or posted the wrong pictures.

 

This is an excellent example of why one must look at the big picture instead of simply assuming the worst. The coin is priced at $10; if this seller was really trying to pass this off as an AU, it most certainly wouldn't be priced accordingly for the coin shown in the photo. From this we can reasonably conclude that the claimed "AU" grade isn't "hilarious" or part of some devious scam, but a simple mistake.

 

Actually Ugly. Amusingly Unimpressive. About Unique. Around Unconscious. Artful Undergrounder. Aiming Upwards. Army Used. Alarmingly Unfit.......yeah AU

 

I'm guessing it's a listing error. When you list a ton of coins, things like this do happen sometimes.

 

I've done that before... sold a coin of a certain date, listed one later of the same date and forgot to edit the condition portion/description. And since it got bid on, I had to cancel the auction. I hate misleading people.

 

I've seen several coins listed as a certain date but the picture was another, as well as the type listed as one thing and the picture being different type. Every time it was a seller with a huge volume. I believe these are 99% accidents most of the time. I even asked a seller about one because I wanted the coin pictured not the one described and they told me they had listed it wrong because of volume and the coin pictured was the coin I'd receive. It happens.

 

I once found an auction by a young woman who had no idea what the difference was between a circulated and an uncirculated coin... She had a VG at best coin listed as a BU... So I messaged her about it, and she confessed she didn't know what the letters meant. She was appreciative of the education. And she did end up fixing the listing in the end.

 

Write it off as an honest error on the seller's part.

 

Am I right in assuming, unless you are a coin efficianado, "almost uncirculated" seems like it could be the most misinterpreted grade for a coin to be called. How close is "almost?" Obviously the coin shown at the beginning of this thread isn't even close, most likely a typo error of some kind, it's just something I've noticed alot on Ebay with sellers less experienced I coin collecting.

 

Of course it is AU, or it once was AU, therefore it has remnants of being AU, before being worn to death

 

Seems the seller corrected the listing. Honest mistake most likely.

 

Mistakes are made. It is a waste of time and effort obsessing with this.

 

Well, AU is actually "About Uncirculated," not "Almost Uncirculated."

 

I knew it was an innocent error. Glad to see he got it fixed.