I'm not sure it's anything that nefarious. If you use the quick and convenient buy-postage-and-print-label feature on eBay, your package shows up...
That's not what I'd be thinking. I'd be thinking that he never was intending to send a coin in the first place.
I don't know what sort of coin it was, or how good a price $600 was, but at this point my eBay-spider-sense would be screaming "I'm never going to...
Trust me, it's a lot better than not finding that person.
In before @bqcoins and his $30 dime set. :) Best deal dollar-wise might have been the impaired proof Trade Dollar from an eBay junk lot (spent...
"One of the girls in customer service"? You're dating yourself. ;) The main contact person, and the one who did the most to keep things honest,...
How many of my spouses approve of this hobby? Um, I'm going to go with "most of them"...
Pretty sure that the "buying" results are anonymized so you can't see what was bought, just from whom and a vague idea of when (had to be before...
Nope. They eventually caught on that that was a bit of a privacy issue. You can see the specific items that any given user sold, but not who...
Ah, I was just about to ask for photos (or a unit of measure for ".100"). :) This looks it's been rolled to smash and raise the rim. Not worth a...
Well, I'll admit that I can't refute that argument. ;)
What difference does it make, as long as the appearance and chemical composition of the surface is the same?
The part where it looks like you're contradicting yourself. If the "toning" on two coins is due to "the same changes to a coin's surface",...
Right back at you. ;) If by "toning" you mean the process, yes, of course, there's a difference between letting a coin sit in a bag or an album...
Can you clarify what you mean by "original"? I thought silver dollars only got distributed and stored in bags, and that rolls only came along well...
In contrast, I volunteered to read daily Skylab news updates over the PA system at my elementary school. (That was the beginning of my journalism...
Your collection is amazingly cool, as always. But, if you're going to call out mass as opposed to weight, shouldn't you really be using slugs...
Witness all the folks bidding against each other to pay hundreds or thousands of times face value for simple old dollar coins -- even ones clearly...
On the other hand, it's good that they plated an already-damaged coin, rather than ruining a good one, I suppose.
A solid gold cent would weigh more than that. 49-50 grains is about 3.2 grams. An unplated Indian cent weighs 3.1 grams. I've seen an article...
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