Some eBay sellers really are something else

Look at the top of this nickel - How can you call this GEM BU???

http://cgi.ebay.com/STUNNING-1945-S...ameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting


I don't think the notch was in it when it left the mint! Amazing the seller doesn't bother to mention it!

 

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I think the notch may be paper from the 2x2 not an actual cut in the coin. Anyone else have thoughts?

 

Looks MS-61/62 from here. As many know BU simply used to mean MS before the Sheldon Scale came into use.

Ben

 

I agree because it looks like there is a similar notch on the bottom as well.

 

Not the greatest pic either.

 

If that's from the 2x2 then those pics are really deceiving. I have looked at it over and over. That must have been a really bad cut out of the hole to leave that much material. Hope it is the 2x2 because otherwise the coin looks like it has nice luster.

 

I think you're right. Hard to say. It would be unusual to have a coin display that much luster and have such a major mutilation.

Of course, MS64 is not "gem". By definition, MS65+ is gem.

 

I have seen them worse! That is what it looks like to me.

 

That is just a small piece of the 2x2 sticking down, left from when the cardboard was punched out.

 

It looks like a piece of plastic, over the coin, from the holder. I have seen this before.

 

okay - I'm convinced - I need to look a little closer next time before jumping to conclusions!

 

Very lustrous, except alot of them are for the war nickels, lol. I'm not sure if it is GEM BU, but this is how I look at what the phrases mean, but I could and probably am way off:

MS or UNC=MS-60-MS-62
BU=MS-63-64
Gem BU=MS-65-66
Brilliant Gem BU=MS-67+

Phoenix