Here is the listing text for all of us: The listing was for a "1910 US Gold 2.50 Quarter Eagle awesome looking coin": IF THIS LOOKS PATCHY ITS DUE TO EBAYS DECREE THAT NOT ONLY CAN COINS NOT BE GIVEN NUMBER GRADES BUT BY THE CHOSEN FEW IT APPEARS NUMBER GRADES CANNOT IN FACT BE DISGUST IN GENERAL EITHER. SOMEWHERE IN HELL JOSEPH GOEBBELS IS LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY AT HIS INFLUENCE STILL CREEPING INTO THE ODDEST PLACES FOR PERVERTED REASONS AND IT IS SHAMEFUL OF EBAY TO ENGAGE IN CENSORSHIP OF HONEST DISCUSSION BUT SINCE WHEN DID SHAMELESSNESS PREVENT EBAY FROM DOING MUCH THE INCUSE DESIGNED GOLD INDIAN HEAD COINS ARE MY FAVORITE US GOLD COINS AND THE $2.50 QUARTER EAGLE VERSION IS ONE OF THE FEW THAT EVEN THE AVERAGE COIN COLLECTOR CAN ASSEMBLE AN ENTIRE SET OF EACH COIN AND MINT MADE IN THE SERIES. YOU CAN SAY THAT ABOUT FEW IF ANY OTHER SERIES OF US GOLD COINS AND THE UNIQUE DESIGN OF THESE COINS GIVES THEM A SPECIAL APPEAL AS A COLLECTOR. EACH COIN IS .12094 OZ OF PURE GOLD WITH ..100 COPPER CONTENT TO HARDEN THE GOLD UP SOME FOR DURABILITY. TOTAL WEIGHT IS 4.18 GRAMS AND IN GENERAL BASED ON THE GRADE THEY ARE GIVEN BY NGC / PCGS THEY PRICE AROUND $325. EACH IN MS LOWEST GRADE. THE ONE EXCEPTION BEING THE 1911-D THE KEY TO THE SERIES WITH A SUPER LOW MINTAGE NUMBER OF 55,680 IT WILL COST YOU 10 GRAND FOR LOWEST MS GRADE FROM THE TWO LORDS OF SLABBING AND GRADING WHO REFUSE TO FAIRLY GRADE SUCH RARE COINS FAIRLY WHEN OWNED BY COMMON HOBBY COLLECTORS WHILE A ROCKEFELLER WOULD BE GIVEN THE FINEST ACCOLADES AND CHOICEST OF GRADES..I KNOW THE GRADING PROCESS IS "BLIND" BUT WHEN A 1913 LIBERTY NICKEL, 1804 DOLLAR, A GOBRECHT, A STELLA AND TO A LESSER EXTENT A 1911-D $2.50 QUARTER EAGLE APPEARS FOR GRADING EVEN A BLIND MAN COULD SEE THAT LIKELY THESE ARE NOT COINS THAT THE GRUBBY PAWS OF THE UNWASHED MASSES SHALL EVER TOUCH SO OFTEN YOU'LL SEE A RUSTED OUT PIG OF A 1700'S HALF CENT THAT ANY SERIOUS GRADING EXPERT WOULD DECLARE A PITTED CORROSION EYE-SORE DETAILS GRADE THE TURD AND SEND IT OUT WITH A AG DETAILS GRADE RUSTED OUT PITTED COIN CRUSTY AND RUSTY EVEN SLABBING WONT PREVENT THE TURNING INTO DUST PARTICLES THIS COIN IS VISIBLY DOING RAPIDLY. NEY. NEY SUCH A RUSTED CRUSTED COIN THAT LOOKING UPON IT ONE IS DISGUSTED WERE IT A SCARCE AND RARE TYPE COIN WOULD ENJOY AN F-TWELVE GRADE AS JUST RECENTLY OCCURRED. IF THIS RUSTED OUT PITTED COIN IS AN F-12 I'M KING FARROUK YET THE PRESTIGE OF BEING THE GRADING SERVICE HONORED TO SLAB SUCH A RARE COIN IS JUST HOW QUICK EVEN THE SUBJECTIVE STANDARDS OF THESE SERVICES TURN INTO THE SYCOPHANT SERVILE GROVELING OF LITTLENESS DESPERATE TO SLAB THE RAREST COIN OF THE DECADE AND SHOULD IT BE ONLY A TRAIN FLATTENED COKE BOTTLE TOP RESEMBLING A RARE COLONIAL IT WILL GET THE VF-TWENTYGRADE THAT CRUSHED BOTTLE TOPS ARENT ELIGIBLE FOR AS THEY ARENT COINS, UNLESS SOME GOOBER DISCERNS ITS A HALF CENT CAP TO POLE TO CAP ONE OF A KIND, THEN IT'S A SLABBED TREASURE WHICH IS AS WORTHLESS AS A BROWN TROUT. I DIGRESS ENOUGH ABOUT GRADING SERVICES JUST BE AWARE THAT WITH COINS LIKE THIS YOU WILL GET BURNED AS OFTEN AS NOT WHICH IS FRUSTRATING. I HAVE NEVER SENT THIS ONE IN SO CANT GUESS WHAT IT MIGHT GET GRADE WISE BUT IT'S A GORGEOUS COIN AND WOULD BE GREAT IN ANY COLLECTION!!!.
No, it's completely normal to them, and you and I are the weird ones who "don't see the truth." They are more numerous than you know; in fact, one of them is a man many would call the best Quarterback currently playing in the NFL.
Just watched a "Cops" episode where a perp is explaining to the cop that he was running because the cop turned into a monster.
I love it! For some reason this sounds vaguely similar to something I saw on this site last year (particularly the "lords of slabbing" part). I wonder if it's the same guy?
"THE INCUSE DESIGNED GOLD INDIAN HEAD COINS ARE MY FAVORITE US GOLD COINS AND THE $2.50 QUARTER EAGLE VERSION IS ONE OF THE FEW THAT EVEN THE AVERAGE COIN COLLECTOR CAN ASSEMBLE AN ENTIRE SET OF EACH COIN AND MINT MADE IN THE SERIES." I wonder what coin collectors he spends time with. I would venture to say that the average collector has a collection valued at less than $5k. If the PCGS price guide is accurate (and it has been revised recently to be more realistic), even a VF30 set will cost you more than that.
I guess he's at least right (to some extent) with the rusted 179x half cent which may get a grade no Lincoln cent would ever receive. Apart from that... LOL where's my popcorn? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Except he left out the part how no 1700s coin should be held to the same standard as a 1900s/2000s coins
and in 2100 we'll be saying the same about zincons: rare in problem free circulated grades due to environmental deterioration widely available in ms. struck in large numbers for commercial use, carelessly handled, so rare again in highest grades.
Got a new one that you HAVE to see... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-Rear-D...530715?hash=item41bc177f1b:g:0X4AAOSwZQRYfW-l
Yes. It was swallowed by the family dog and extracted from his rear. It must have been a golden retriever...