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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nightowl, post: 711211, member: 18614&quot;]I don&#039;t think there&#039;s anything especially fishy about the story. The seller is in her 60s. I have made some sweet deals on eBay....but it takes diligence. Just this year, I have acquired:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) a 1921 High relief Peace Dollar for 12 bucks...buy it now</p><p><br /></p><p>2) a 1900 Liberty nickel struck on a Nicaragua 5 centavos planchet...open bidding, in a lot of 23 scrub V nickels. I got the lot for the opening bid of 49.95...and sold the other 22 coins for 30 bucks. That coin is pictured below.</p><p><br /></p><p>3)There was a guy selling an &quot;unsearched&quot; lot of 574 V nickels from one of his parents&#039; estate....asking $350.00. It brought no bids, so right before the auction closed, I asked him to call me, which he did. I negotiated with him and bought the lot for $255.00 ppd. I got them in and about a quarter of the way through the bag....bingo...a 1912-S. I kept that coin and 47 others (and sold 10 to a friend for a buck apiece) and sold the remaining coins for $250.00...end result...a 1912-S V nickel in F-12 for basically nothing....free.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story wasn&#039;t what sold me on this coin. It was the coin itself...it looks right to me. It is coming from what I imagine to be the &quot;right&quot; part of the country for the story to even begin to have a chance of being valid....and iot was a &#039;buy it now&#039;....listed in the wrong category, by an inexperienced seller. As for &quot;stealing&quot; it....I guess I see it a little differently. I paid the asking price without dickering. I could have placed a 40 dollar bid and took a chance, but in 7 days....more folks would have noticed it and had a chance to research it. When I bought it....it had been listed for a little less than 15 minutes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh yeah.....We also sold Ricky Skaggs his Loar F-5 mandolin....just 4 numbers off the seial number of Bill Monroe&#039;s. That instrument turned up in a neighboring town....and in 5 months...we turned a 5 figure profit on it. It&#039;s worth 4 times what he paid us for it today, but when we sold it (1996) it reallized a new record price.</p><p><br /></p><p>So fishy or not....sometimes these things just turn out to be the truth. For those who shy away from eBay....by all means...leave the stuff for me to sort through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nightowl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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