A Scarce Sestertius of Domitian

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Nice new coin mike. I don't have any AE of Domitian, but would like to get one some day. How about a Commodus.

Doug Hill

 

dhill, you're lovely coin, and this thread, reminds me i need to vent about my recent coin buying ordeals. in the last month, i've purchased a sestertius of commodus AND a sestertius of lucius verus from vcoins sellers. BOTH coins aren't going to be mine. different sellers "lost" the item or sold in another somewhere else. absolutely drives me bonkers.



now my other vent.

paypal refunding.

the seller of the second coin i purchased (after an hour of research and comparison shopping) refunded my money, and the refund is "pending" and the funds aren't going to be available until they clear the bank i suppose. why is sending money to a seller instantaneous yet money coming back delayed for several days?

sorry for my only tangentially related rant.

 

Wow, Chris... that is definitely rant-worthy.

I suspect that Vcoins dealers who attending physical shows often get behind in updating the virtual stores. They probably take the inventory to shows, sell some coins, and then delay or neglect marking them as sold on their websites, only noticing when a webcustomer wants to buy the coin. I'm not excusing them, just providing a likely explanation for the seemingly frequent problem.

 

Oh yea, thats rant worthy for sure. There are some Vcoins dealers, that this seems to be their excuse. You show interest in a particular coin and its, oh ugh, yea its sold. Which I suspect they listed it too cheaply. This has happened to me 7 times. 3 times with the same dealer. Now I have a list of people I dont buy from.

Now @Mikey Zee Your turning into a real ancient coins buying monster. Excellent.

This coin is awesome and pretty big. I dont have a big dog like you but here is pic of my scratched up as.

 

Like eBay, vCoins is not a dealer but a group of different people with different degrees of honesty and ability. They make an effort to handle problems with bad apples in the sense of honesty but there are relatively big name sellers on vCoins that fail to check their mail and see that you have bought a coin and paid for it with Paypal. This has happened to me three times requiring a follow up note and receiving an apology with the coin when it finally did arrive. This is less a proble with eBay because they are more active against sellers who do not meet their requirements for timely shipping.

This is nothing new. Years ago I received a Harlan Berk catalog listing a coin I wanted. As was the common practice back then (before Internet), I phoned and reserved the coin. The person I talked to told me to send check (credit cards were new stuff then and more of us wrote checks) which I did (immediately! I wanted that coin). A few days later, I got a call telling me that they would return my check because they had sold the coin to someone else. Instead of my returned check, the next week's mail included the coin. When the other person (a much better customer) heard that they were voiding my purchase, he instructed them to let me have it since I was first. Problems like this will occur whenever you have two people in the same room with two phones or a home office staff taking orders while the boss is at a show. About all we can do is expect them to make the most of the situation and handle it properly. BUT...

This is the reason I do not post great coups online before the coin is in hand. Lets say I buy a $1000 rarity misidentified as a $10 junker (anyone ever seen a real Regalianus? -- for the record, I do not have one of his junkers). The last thing I want is to suggest to a seller that this would be a good coin to 'lose' and refund with apology. Do I know who reads these posts? 99.9% of the time this is a totally unnecessary reaction to a non-problem. The fact remains I have had two coins I 'really' wanted turn up missing and refunded over the decades. You will see my coins, good or bad, after they arrive and not before.