GC auctions can be ridiculous too

I know we give eBay and Etsy randos a lot of grief for what they want for their garbage, but check out this Great Collections auction demanding $608 for a cleaned 1922 Peace dollar.

https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/647950/1922-Peace-Silver-Dollar-PCGS-Genuine-Unc-Details

Yes, the toning is nice, but it's a hairlined 1922 for Pete's sake. I might pay $18 for it.

 

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If you're being honest with the current state of things, you can believe that sometime within the next year this coin will be in a straight graded MS64 holder, with a CAC sticker.

 

OK, how about this one...

Am I the only person who can’t see any VDB on this currently $1450 1909-S V.D.B?

https://www.greatcollections.com/Coin/690000

 

Dear lord, I hope not. Those swipes across Liberty's face are just... gruesome.

 

If this Peace $1 ever CACs, I’ll remove all the stickers from my slabs...

 

Oh, dear. And NGC doesn't provide any value guarantee for "mechanical errors" in slabbing, right?

 

The sad part folks is: 'Some' sellers out there take the item price to the extremes in hopes someone who knows little or nothing will come along and place the big bucks. Sadly, they come.

 

Follow up question: how responsible is Great Collections for listing it as an S-VDB?

 

I see a very light V.D.B.

 

Care to point it out? I've been staring at it for a while and can't see it. Any V.D.B. I've ever seen has been pretty obvious, even on lighter coins.

 

This is the best I could do, but there is some "disturbance" for lack of a better word, right where the VDB is supposed to be. These may not help...

 

Just watch someone buy that peace, send it in a bunch of times until PCGS straight grades it, sends it to legend and gets like 20k from it LOL. What a joke US coins are, glad I moved to World Coins!!

 

Ian is a member here, I believe. He wouldn't sell it if he wasn't sure. Anyone know his username? Found it. Posted/tagged below.

 

@greatcollection

 

I can see the tiniest of disturbances in what may be a D in there, but only because I'm looking for a D. I'd like to think they wouldn't sell something they knew not to be as advertised. It could very well be the lighting.

 

If a new poster came in with those photos and said "I bought this as an S but think I see a VDB", we'd run him off with shouts of "pareidolia".

Anybody reviewing those images for the listing should've said either "this coin has no VDB" or "we need a photo that makes the VDB visible".

I hope we aren't on the verge of a new frontier of "weak-VDB" 1909-S cents. My eyes are already about to give out from the 22-D cents and the 11-D quarter eagles...

 

I've actually known of the "weak vdb 1909-S VDB for years. It's a thing, from what I understand. Having said that, you're right. We would've run him or her off in all likelihood.

 

I’d bet the consignor required a high starting bid. The market, however, was brutally honest about that valuation.

There is a die pair with a weak VDB

 

I see the V.

 

Oh, I'm sure. Not blaming GC. I'm gratified to see it hasn't gotten any bids.