Who on Earth would Buy this Coin?! "1841-O half Dime - High Grade AU -UNC"....

Had a good laugh this morning:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1841-O-Sea...841824?hash=item26182519a0:g:xvcAAOSwWdNcSCqk

It is in fact a severely cleaned, damaged/polished coin described as "High Grade AU - UNC".

No mention of the word 'details', and priced as straight-graded and premium example.
Probably worth one tenth of what he is asking, if even that.

Who on earth falls for this stuff?

 

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Looks fake too!

 

super cleaned and scratched to hell. no sale!

 

Very questionable, and from Germany

 

Yeah, this is so 'out of range' that I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming he got the decimal point wrong.....

 

interesting that he has at least 10 psges of items for sale and they are all coins.

 

Rare date? It's not even a $50 coin and in that damaged condition, less.
Unless I am missing something. $780?

 

And not slabbed.

 

Further "UGH!" examples from this seller:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1858-S-Sea...100302?hash=item2619b5c5ce:g:M8MAAOSw9P1cg6ZH

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1844-Seate...287216?hash=item261a142d70:g:3GAAAOSw1cdb5t6d

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1860-O-Sea...100313?hash=item2619b5c5d9:g:vMQAAOSw94Ncg7-7


Anybody can ask what he wants for his stuff, but this goes a little far to say the least.

 

Well to be fair these last 3 coins are rare key dates and the first 2 are
listed as details coins.
I'm not biased for this seller, just saying.

 

What does that mean? Are we on a black list, ranking #2 right after China? ;-)

 

It looks scrubbed with a steel wool pad.

 

Eduard, there are so many cleaned, damaged and ugh(ly) coins in their inventory, you won’t be able to list them all... I honestly believe that’s their “business model” - buying cheap junk silver and trying to sell them as “rare” or “nice” and “high grade” US coins. Thanks, but no thanks.

 

nope, it means that you should be very careful.

I recently purchased a piece from Germany, and I was very pleased

 

There's a sucker born every minute.

 

Dear god what a horrible bunch of ruined coins. I bet they clean them themselves as all the surfaces look the same. I wouldn’t touch any for any price. Let alone the money they’re asking when you can buy a good original for less

 

Not as far as you know...

 

Everything I can see that he is offering has been scrubbed to death. He must buy Brillo pads by the case and stay up all night rubbing his coins.

 

The dealer is German, so be assured, if he cleans his coins, he’ll clean them thoroughly!

 

Really? Only because I might buy something from somebody in the same country?

Christian