Haha, I’ll fess up. My very first ancient coin was one of these. I had a left over $20 Amazon gift card from Christmas 2013 that I decided to use on something frivolous. I saw these for sale for like $9.99 and bought one. When it came I was pretty disappointed. Luckily my interest was strong and I also suspected these could be garbage so not long after, I bought my 2nd and 3rd coins which were much nicer and really kicked off the hobby for me. I still have my first coin in its crappy slab. Part nostalgia, part my refusal to pass it onto another poor beginner.
Ebay fishing for suckers with floor sweepings. Hate to say it, but one of the largest dealers who do this is from the twin cities.
"Widow's mite sized" is jargon for "we will use anything and everything but the metric system to measure things."
I have nothing printable to say about these people. ...Well, wait; reminds me of the ads for phoney medieval, etc. coins at the back of comic books in the late '60's and '70's. The last two words were always, "Genuine replica." (Nope, knew what that meant.) [Edit:] And we wonder why so many people think all ancients are fakes.
INB is listed as one of the TPG's to avoid like a disease. Do a net search of "Coin grading services to avoid." I made this mistake early on too. Be safe not sorry! My opinion. Thanks for the post.
Is INB the basement slab company of Centsles on eBay? I used to dredge through eBay's ancients section at least a few times a week, and I can't even count how many hundreds of these slabbed culls I've seen. The "widow's mite sized" AE4's are deceptive, but I especially get a chuckle when I see a cull broken Gallienus in a slab marked Constantine the Great era
So what's not to understand?...........it took a long time for the old woman to find them..........sheesh.
LOL. As well as irony contiinues to explicate and describe our world, you rarely see it online. ...If you Google 'irony,' you're already acknowledging the obvious.