I saw this 1859 cent on eBay. Looks like it has decent details, but the surfaces look a bit grainy. What are your thoughts about its condition? http://www.ebay.com/itm/310725583746?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Brown in color, low ms condition, looks like a die clash on the reverse around the lower part of the wreath, but not sure, only photos
Yes, as GDJMSP mentioned, the cleaning hurts that coin quite a bit. Plus, and I may be wrong here, but it would appear that one of the sellers friends has been bidding little by little so it appears at the top of the "most bids" filter. Not a big deal, just something that is noticeable.
Lol I noticed that too. Thats not cool it looks like he got a friend to bid up everyone. He bid like 15 times in 4 min. lol
I've got a nice one, lower grade then that one but I can assure you I didn't pay anything close to that price for it only a year or so ago. If I recall correctly I paid out about $15 for it.... (The "liberty" is clearer then this pic shows, it seems to fuzz out a bit in the lighting I have set up at moment)
Looks like the coin still brought a no problem AU price. That seems to happen a lot on Ebay. I would call it AU cleaned. It's a $100 coin to me.
I too am a bit surprised that the final bid was so much. The surfaces looked granular and an odd color. Its being subjected to a harsh cleaning makes sense.
Watch ebay enough and you'll see similar things happen all the time - people buying problem coins of all kinds because they don't realize they are problem coins, and paying way too much for them. People buying out right and obvious fakes and paying retail for them. People paying more than full retail for over-graded coins. People buying coins in self-slabber slabs. The list goes on. And yet people wonder why I say that they should ignore realized prices on ebay As a general rule, buying coins on ebay when you don't really, really, know coins, is like walking through a mine field blindfolded - when the mines are spaced 6 inches apart in every direction.
I think the take away here is that we should sell on ebay. start all auctions at 99 cents and let it rip i am sure if a few of us tried and made hefty profits we could all quit our day jobs and become eBay coin dealers
