What am I missing here?

I wish these bidders would come my way! Click on original item.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/Indian-head-cents-Liberty-Visible-1887-1888-1889-1892-1897-1902-1903-7-coins-/123407525216?hash=item1cbba96560:g:yIUAAOSw-MRbuBgS&nma=true&si=xt3GgP1ztHKC7dY3ljOzIyWiffA%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

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You and me both.

 

2 snipers with nuclear bids, maybe.

 

i don't get it, 4000 thousand dollars for a couple of 25 dollar coins.

 

Shill bidding? I'm stumped as well.

 

My only hypothesis is that he asked all his friends to bid on the auction, then after it "sold" he would relist it for $400, for example, and someone would jump in and buy it, thinking they got the deal of a lifetime.

 

Someone might think the 1888 is an 1888/7.

 

I know what you mean, but doesn't look like an 1888/7 to me.

 

I looked for that too

 

There is something there to suggest it may be, but I wouldn't take a 4k gamble on that blurry and ambiguous of a photo.

 

The cud over UNITED means someone got a good deal on an 1888/7. Worth probably 8k-12k. Looks like an XF coin.

 

What cud? The little one right on the rim over the "N"?

 

Is that a cud? It looks more like a piece of dirt tom me, rather than a cud, or a 7 under the 8.

 

Yes. In fact, I was one of the bidders on these coins. Some folks are quick to cry "shill," but there's a reason it got bid so high.

 

That was the first thing I looked for. I concur with 1888/7

 

Now I see it, even so WOW

http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/2169

 

And if I'd listed those coins, the odds are good that I'd have missed the variety, listed them at what I considered a fairly hefty BIN, and been surprised when they sold so quickly.

And alarmed when I realized the buyer was @C-B-D.

 

We will know for sure if he posts it as a GTG

 

Oh, I actually didn't bid that high or anywhere very close to that $4,000 mark. I wasn't sure enough that it was the 88 / 7. But once I saw all the bids in the last second I figured somebody must have been sure.

 

Or two bidders THOUGHT it was.

Heck of a gamble.

Steve