This seller over the last 6 months has quietly put out rare coins of the same coins over and over. It's always the same group of coins with 1894-P Morgans in mint state. always same rare key coins like 1916-D Liberty Dime MS Grade he has sold over 20 often at only 30% to 50% of market value. In 6 months I have seen five auctions of 1916 Standing Liberty in MS Condition sold only for a few thousand or less. My question is this a Coin Wizard who can cast a spell to change dates/mint marks? or is it just the best deals on Ebay? I consider myself an entry level collector, so it's possible their is something I've not taken into consideration. 1894 1928-S 1921-P
Oh shit, I know this guy! He's ALWAYS been the lucky one out of the 2 of us, although, I have no idea how he's been pulling MS key dates out his ass. Perhaps it's a hole to a Chinese sweatshop?
I took a look at the closed auctions. Multiples of key dates, almost every coin is AU. Almost nothing slabbed.
Another member (@YankeeDime) recently posted this: Inside a Chinese Coin Counterfeiting Ring (thesprucecrafts.com) Remember the saying "If it sounds too good to be true...".
I have to figure it's one of you guys, selling off your collection, lol. The guy has 100% positive feedback. Not 1 negative comment. Too bad all his stuff is so good, lol. *edit If you Google coinsncards a lot of warnings come up about the guy.
Here's the fatal flaw in "100% positive feedback". First, people can now revise feedback that they've left. That wasn't always the case. For this seller, two people have done so: Second, and much more importantly, if the seller offers a refund, the seller can have negative feedback REMOVED. So, there's no way to make negative feedback stick, as long as the seller offers to make things right. I haven't studied this seller's particular listings, and I'm not sure I could reliably identify good fakes of these key dates anyhow. But this selling pattern -- lots and lots of keys, in apparent high grade, unslabbed, being sold again and again and again -- just looks incredibly suspicious. Where's he getting them? Why isn't he slabbing any of them?
Could be a undercover agent for the Crimeese. I've seen his expensive seller ad, legit or not, I pass. Very informative post, thank you.
These fakes are extremely pernicious to serious collectors & collections everywhere. Thusly making collectors have doubts of the coins, possibly in their collection's, originality. Very harmful to numismatics. Thanks 'oldsilverdollar' for bringing this seller to CT member's attention, J.T.
I have been slowly scooping up a key date coin over the last couple years and I’m sure my kids will pull them out their ass when I die. Lol
The coins look pretty real, though PCGS says when they have that "concrete" look they are cast. Here is a closeup of the Bands of a 1929-D 10c Mercury Head Dime Uncirculated Monster FSB Full Split Bands. If they are copies, they are very good copies. That's why i am hesitant to buy unslabbed coins now.
It just dawned on me. He is a time traveler that goes back in time and picked up numerous key date coins and then returns and sells them. Mystery solved. LOL
Why stop there? Sell the coins, travel to the future, steal them, bring them back, and sell them again! Now you've got twice as many of each coin! Do it nine times, and you have ten times as many!
No, no, the laws of physics require travel into the future. They just don't allow travel into the past. (And that's why we can't have faster-than-light travel, either; that is time travel, because it results in some observers seeing effects happen before causes. That breaks everything.)
Sadly it appears he is selling counterfeit coins. I took a look at his Morgan dollars although they look nice it's funny that all of them have the same luster. Three different dates but, no difference in luster. Not likely. Have a group of a similar graded Lincoln 1909 S VDB. They're to much a like to be real. Chinese counterfeits. Don't be fooled by the old paper roll. That's very easy to reproduce.