This person must never have been educated...

http://cgi.ebay.com/18th-century-mo...1QQihZ019QQcategoryZ39465QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

He doesn't know the 1800s were the 19th century! Plus, that coin is from a website and its not mint state

 

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HAHA, surely it's a joke auction.

B

 

i dont know about you, but id only offer 5k for it

 

This guy must be an astute historian. :goofer:

 

This must be a joke auction, or this guy is a complete tard! I can understand maybe putting up a $15 coin, put to put up a $15,000, all I have to say is WOW!!

 

Maybe he accidentally was looking at the value of an 1878-CC trade dollar rather than a Morgan? Would be a reasonable price in uncirculated condition... if it in fact was in mint condition, and was in fact a trade dollar, lol...

Seems to have lack of some basic concepts, like what "mint condition" means, and when the 19th century was (1801-1900), and the difference between a Morgan dollar and a trade dollar. If this isn't a joke, this guy is not exactly educated about what he's selling.

 

I see the 19th century mistake all the time...especially while looking at the antiques listings!!!

 

I would say that this auction and the guy selling the coin are certainly a joke. This guy has zero feedback on Ebay and is trying to sell a coin for $15,000, a coin that is worth no more than $15 dollars at best. He must actually think he's going to get a sucker, uh, I mean bidder...haha.

 

It's an extremely worn coin too.I reckon that it'd be a bargain at US$5,that is,if the auction is genuine.

Aidan.

 

what strikes me about this kind of garbage is that this guy is paying ebay more than the coin is worth to list it... especially at $15k.

 

Specialization

The person might have inherited the piece, bought some type of value sheet and went down the road.
I watch people who have what I call life time callings or highly focused jobs. Their time to deal with coins, baseball skiing et. is minimal.
My niece is like this, she had her PHD at 27yrs in Theoretical Chemistery. It makes my head hurt thinking about what she does. She works on Juvinile drugs for a large company. A vacation is reading a medical journal ,or writing a white paper without a phone ringing. She and her husband dine out and he teaches at a college near their home in Washington State. She is her job.
" An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. "
I think without an outlet to change your focus, you become one dimentional/
This forum gives you a chance to learn if you can like coins for what ever reason. Art , social learning, monetary gain or you just really like it.

Be well
Floyd

 

goofy as heck

 

More then likely its someone fishing for a sucker. Common thing of Ebay.

 

I do understand whay your saying pepperoni, but it's still pretty hard to think a $15 coin is actually a $15,000 coin.......lol

 

Yes

agreed, I use the one chance principle. Screw me once......

 

The Ebay listing fee would be pretty high for a "joke".

 

Willie is right...someone paid a pretty steep listing fee on eBay if that is indeed a joke. Has anyone thought of contacting the seller to ask about the coin, or perhaps, clue him in on what he really has?

And, as of this writing, there's only 2 hours left on this auction, so you guys better get your bids in soon! :mouth:

pCG

 

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

Not as much as I thought, but there's not way he's going to make money on this, even if he sells it for reg. price

 

Supposedly the maximum Ebay listing fee for anything starting over $500 is $4.80.

 

It could be one of those Ebay phishing scams to try & get hold of your bank account details so that they can clean out your bank account.In other words,give this the widest berth possible!

Aidan.