This one is sentimental to me. I can't believe it sold. I then looked and he has been listing this *spoon* for many months..... I can't believe this took me so long. Here is my connection. This old bat had this EXACT coin in this EXACT same flap back in 2011. I was spent a few months in Seattle for business. I put a few ads online that I was a new collector in the area and if anybody had coins or coin questions to contact me. This hag contacted me and said he had an old dollar and we just happened to be with in 30 minutes of one another. He said he had no camera. I asked if he could take picture with his phone but said it was a land-line. He genuinely seemed like a very old grandpa type. I said ok. When I got there he was younger than I expected (55 or so maybe). He took this EXACT same little brown envelope he put on Ebay. When I say that envelope on Ebay I cracked out laughing. When I FIRST saw this envelope I had a small heart attack. He said his parents were world travelers and when I read that envelope I almost died. I thought maybe I was going to have the find of the decade in coins. I told him before I opened it this would be a major coin and I would have to probably sell a lot of my bullion to pay him for it. It (as you can see) was a fake. Not one of the usually Chinese 'crooked nose' ones but still an obvious fake with some inspection. I explained this to him and went over all the reasons why. He seemed totally 'uhh' and just basically rushed me out. Fast forward a month later and I see he put this on Craigslist and this time the story was gifted this coin from an old neighbor. Wait a minute. I was pissed. I used an email to set up a meeting at a bank and when he saw me show up he said "Hi" and I told him off and he just sort of took it. He is the most dispassionate con I've never run into. He was like grey paint. Sorry again for one of my typical 'stories' of coin scams. Whether by ignorance or bad luck I have had about 100 lifetimes of coin scams. Please flag this so HOPEFULLY we can stop this before it happens. I know we can't stop scams and anybody thinking they are getting a real 1804 Dollar for $500 on Ebay is a huge fool but at the same time scams like this hurt us all. Just scroll down and report it for being an uncertified coin. I flagged it and hope you do as well. I also sent an Ebay message to my old friend; I'm sure he remembers me. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1804-coin-C...Lwou8eyRKqrJpM8o%3D&orig_cvip=true&rmvSB=true
The listing ended March 1 with three bids. I don't know if it ended for reasons other than a winning bid, or if the high bidder actually paid $535 for it.
It did sell but you can still flag and if gets enough flags A) It goes on seller's record B) It stops the sale so the novice buyer either will be blocked from paying OR it will expedite the process of said buyer getting a refund.
Liberty head/hair details look horrible, stars also look wrong. Seems especially fake with all that luster yet worn details.
e got over $500 for it, and he has over 1000 sales and a 100% SATISFACTION RECORD? Given your story, he is a deliberate fraud, not some innocent oldster. Just shows how you can get away with all kinds of crap on Ebay forever.
Reported to eBay! This is the link to report it: http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...Listing+Policies+for+Sellers+>+Selling+Coins+
That link has been dead for over a year now. I am not even sure they are doing anything with coins any more.
Sorry Oded but while the link is still there like Rim said they stopped monitoring it about a year ago when they disbanded their anti counterfeit detection group.
