http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220508693554&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT I have bought from this seller before and always great coins. My problem now is that this roll description. In the write up it says that both coins are VDB's. How should this be approached?
If it's such a great "original" roll why doesn't he keep it himself? Snake oil hype laced with a little bit o' P.T. Barnum......I wouldn't approach this one with a ten foot pole.
Yeah I would be careful it looks to me as though you'll get a 1909-S and a 1909-VDB but would guess the rest 40-50's you can bet the farm there's no SVDB in there. I always say to myself as a collector would I sell an unsearched roll of any coins let alone Lincolns NO.
Not that I am recommending the seller, but he does say twice that there is just one VDB. And, he does have fair pictures. "THE 09-S IS WORTH QUITE ABIT....." "BOTH END COINS ARE ORIGINAL AND THE VDB" (that is singular) What are you trying to get from him?
Oops....I see it now.....but I'll bet this is a case of the seller using a previous listing as a template. Why not ask the seller? Nightowl
He says that he has bought from this seller before and likes him. The seller has OBVIOUSLY made a typo. If you expect a 1909-S VDB, you are going to be sorely disappointed. What else can I say?
Yes, I have bought from him and got excellent coins. I'm not looking at all to "get him" but hoping that it doesn't happen to him. Sorry, guess I shoulda clarified that sooner. I am currently un-able to message him. My curiosity was that can he get in trouble for that?
Get in trouble? Nothing serious, I would think. He is more likely to have to refund someone, but I don't see that that is a big deal. It is so obvious that he made a typo, I cannot see eBay doing anything.
The VDB looks good, the 09-S a lot more worn, and original Bank roll? How original considering the wrapper claims it is from the Seattle Branch of the San Francisco Federal Reverve Bank and the Federal Reserve did not come into existence until some four years after the 1909 cents were struck, and I'm sure it was probably several more years before the San Francisco Fed Bank opened, and even longer before there was a Seattle branch.
I got ahold of him. It was from a template. He pulled it and will re-post it with the correct verbage this time.
I've never seen a bank wrapper that had been undone look as tight as this one. Yes, you have to be extremely careful, but given the seller has a return policy, I'd be tempted to take a shot or two at this one. The question I'd ask is: Will you accept a return if I unwrapped the roll? The problem is that the answer that question should be No if the seller wants to protect himself at all. But if the roll goes for $200 or less, what the hey, the 09-S is worth almost that much by itself!
