I'm tired of this garbage and it's MAKING ME SICK!

Hello everyone,

I am so furious!

I just noticed for the first time that even Facebook Marketplace have listings of supposedly "mint errors"

It's sickening and tiring!

Look at this ludicrous listing claiming to be a IN COD WE TRUST..


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Here is a great YouTube video of a guy I follow that explains it very well..

 

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Since real error (or variety) coins are not plentiful but have gotten a fair amount of press, many people are aware of them and want one. This leads to both some stupidity and some deliberate lying/fakery. I posted this (https://www.cointalk.com/threads/craigslist.418170/#post-26255470) that I found on Craigslist. I told the seller what the consensus was and urged him to take it to a dealer. I just re-contacted him and he claims he sold it for $500!

 

Double? How about triple? Maybe my Kennedy would bring MOON money

 

I’m glad to be a CT member and made aware of these things. Also glad that I know a little about true mint errors from common simple errors that happen all the time.

 

It's never going to end. Same with the counterfeits. I gave up.

 

Now if it said "In Codpiece We Trust" that would be some error.

 

looks like something up around the nose too.

 

Here is one I just saw on ebay



Those prices are so ridiculous!
I have a attributed nickel struck on Cent Planchet that Is valued at $300.00
A true mint error. These people are crooks and scammers.

 

I don't know what it is, although I have a hunch. There have always been scammers but lately it's an epidemic. You have to assume every phone call or coin listing or etc is a scam until proven otherwise.

 

Low barrier to entry... with a chain letter, you at least had to buy a stamp. There's zero cost to post a bs listing on fleaBay or Craig's Dump, or SleazeBook Marketplace...

 

PT Barnum is alive and well.

 

That's rather been my gut feel as well.... I been saying for years that these criminals will wreck our great hobby.

 

I'm sure I got one of those in here somewhere.

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@KBBPLL,
If I may ?
I don't know what it is, although, I have a hunch.
There have always been scammers, but lately on U tube,
it's been like a pep rallying epidemic in advertising the error coins, without any creditability.
You have to assume every coin listing or etc is a scam until proven otherwise.
But that's just my thoughts.

 

From a fellow that has been playing with coins well over fifty years, this black plague that has fallen upon our hobby of late is astonishing. Now that's not saying that we didn't always have crooks in the woodworks but man.... To have to consider every listing is a scam? What an awful image of the state of our society. If I were a young person today thinking about learning a little history through coins, I wouldn't even remotely consider it knowing how rife our hobby is with human-pukes.... Dang, can someone get Noah on the phone? I think it's time for a do-over.

 

"I'm not that kind of angel".

..........Do you know that Michael's an arch angel ?

 

“Don’t miss your I’m rare coin.”

I tend to shy away from people / sales / businesses that won’t / cannot put a coherent sentence together.

 

That blurb sounded AI generated to me. Perhaps the seller added the last line. I've seen ebay's AI wrap "makes a unique addition to any collection" around other key words. In the coming AI world every coin is worth a bazillion dollars. We're doomed.