Of course, if the seller has bad pictures to start with, no amount of enlargement will help.
That's hard to do when you've been banned from PayPal for life.
I agree with rlm (with a lower case "L")... the picture Morgandude posted is the Heritage photo. It's not a clone, it's not a fake, it's not a...
Yep... the coin Morgandude posted is genuine.
Melt value is hovering around $30 a troy oz., so that's about what you have. However, ASE's generally sell for a slight premium.
It's a rolled bezel that's been brazed to the coin on the obverse to give a seamless appearance. That would be my guess.
That's face it... there are plenty of alternatives, but there are no equal alternatives. The only success I ever had was with Amazon auctions...
I see the question marks, so the answer is "yes, it's a 1969-S".
Along with getting yourself a Redbook, there's some pretty good photo grading guides available. Here's one for Mercury dimes:...
Yep.. I got to get me one of them diplomas! :) http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=custom+diploma&_sacat=0&_odkw=diploma+choose&_osacat=0&_from=R40
Common date with a silver value of a few dollars, not worth slabbing... here's a similar one on eBay for a BIN of $4 (and welcome to CT):...
Jim - is this a cloaked attempt at Daniel Carr bashing?;)
Wow... there's over 1,400 auctions for "fake" currency active right now.. and some of them look darn good....
I still wonder how the treasury seal is missing from this note I own... I thought the seal and the SN were printed at the same time. [IMG] [IMG]
I ran jello's rant through "free translation.com" and it came out the same as it went in.
Oh well... might as well show off my junk one more time... [IMG] [IMG]
I don't know.. according to these "experts", nickels are tough to spoon, so the concenus leans toward a dryer coin:...
Detecto, you're too funny! A one man vendetta against all that is wrong with eBay.
Not sure what the market value is for gold plated tungsten bars... I assume that's all there is in "Fort Knox."
Got a few junk silver lots up for auction on the 'Bay if interested:...
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