3 Really Ridiculous and Very Sad Ebay "Mint Error" listings

Hi all,

Newbies.. Stay away from these coins. THEY ARE NOT MINT ERRORS!


This is known as a Repousse "Pop Out" stamp.. Done outside of the Mint

This is a State Counterstamp.. Made as a Novelty Item

This is a Vise Coin.. another Cent was pressed against it to leave an incused image
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11 bids on that 79D....perhaps I need to start a new business

 

I don't know why eBay lets items like these get posted! Ok, I guess you can call anything an "error", but it's still miss-leading. However, the 3rd one is absolutely wrong; it's pure false advertising and fraudulent. If that offering was still active and I knew how to get to it, I'd report it! That's the kind of crap that hurts real coin collecting.

BTW, thanks for doing this post

 

i often scroll thru error coins on ebay, but only for a short time before i start getting irritated at seeing all the fake errors posted, recently saw a cent there that had been posted here on CT and was obviously a parking lot coin and the poster was told so by numerous members, but there it was, on ebay as an error coin... grrrrr

 

How about this one?!

 

It's sad that common sense should be enough to tell that these aren't mint errors.

 

This is an intentionally dumbed down society where common sense is about as common as a true doubled die.

 

WE did that to our kids. It's OUR fault, at least my contemporaries. My generation spent too much time smoking weed and we became irretrievably paranoid. We were convinced nobody loved us, so we promiscuously bred children with people we had ZERO intention of building a life with. Result was broken families and too much guilt about it to DEMAND that both our kids AND their teachers get their collective crania out of their backsides.

 

Careful, Fallguy, expecting this hobby to have, maintain, and keep ANY standards, aside from grading, which is supposed to be "single and static" , at least seems to be contrary to semi-official CoinTalk policy and dogma. Keep an eye out.

After all, as long as the "eyeball count" stays up, nothing else seems to matter.

 

Unfortunately, "hobby" is in the eye of the beholder. Standards fall in that category too. Even in this day and age there are still people who think the earth is flat.

 

For the same reason they allow the Chinese to post fake silver bullion coins or any other fake stuff from China, which there is plenty of on ebay.

 

Say it ain't so, Joe.

 

But it sure is flat.. If only those people who venture out to the edge of the ocean would return with the proof.. but they keep falling over the edge and ending up in space! Idiots!

 

I'd stick to coins, Kurt. You're out there on Pluto with those #MeToo crackpots with these inferences.

 

Which part? That duly licensed teachers are morons? That's the part I'm most certain of. I have my own counter to #MeToo. I call it #NoWayYouSweetie.

BTW, I had BUNCHES of fun at Parent/Teacher conferences. The teachers? Not s'much.

I have a guy I work with who's a lawyer, and EVERY time a note comes home from school about his girls, he cc's his response to the teacher, principal, superintendent, and district's legal counsel, and signs his name WITH the "Esq." One teacher reprimanded and transferred, with another on the way.

For him, his favorite target is teachers. Mine is macho cops these days.

 

And the bidders all think the seller doesn't know what he has.

 

By the way, Eddie, when I wrote that unflattering paragraph, I had one prototype in my mind - my own sister. We don't exchange cards at holidays.

 

You can't throw this off on us Boomers, Kurt. My generation brought in civil rights and equality for minorities and women because we didn't take nothing from nobody. We got for them what they couldn't get for themselves. What happened after that wasn't us. I'd have to get political to go beyond, so leave it at this. Enjoy. And heed the lyrics, while you're at it...

 

Yeah, it's terrible that the modern age has brought us such wretched hives of scum and villainy as eBay, at the cost of fine, upstanding traditional institutions like the Flea Market.

Say, Kurt, do Green Dragon and Roots still have those guys with books full of coins in 2x2s, containing a surprising number of high-grade key dates with fuzzy features? I remember one in Roots last time I visited; fortunately, I hadn't yet gotten back into the hobby, so while I didn't realize I was looking at fakes, I also didn't buy anything.

I did come across this just last fall on a visit to an indoor flea market at Myrtle Beach:


So, as you can see, eBay hasn't driven all the reliable brick-and-mortar establishments out of business...