Check this out. I sold this coin for 7.00 on Ebay. A few days later this coin was sold on Ebay. I think I'm trying to sell the wrong kind of toned coins. The AT coins seem to sell better.
That is pathetic, a perfectly good IHC was ruined in the process. Looks to have first been harshly cleaned and then AT'd.
But you can look in a mirror and see an honest man looking back. It's disgusting to see what the scammers are getting price-wise, and almost equally disgusting that some bidders are that incompetent.
Everyone eventually pays the price for knowledge. Some of us, like most of us here, choose to pay this price in time learning. Most others wish to take the easy, (and much more expensive), path to knowledge by simply refusing to educate themselves. It hasn't changed in the last 40 years of this hobby, and probably before then, and will probably outlast us.
Did you watch just to see what he did with it? This type of thing is sad, especially because more often than not, sometime down the road someone is going to have to be the bad guy and deliver the bad news to whoever bought, was given, or inherited such coins, but nothing is going to change. The same goes for the schlubs who buy detail slabbed dreck for the sole purpose of cracking to sell raw; it's easy money, and as long as there are people unwilling to invest the time to learn or who care more about getting a "deal", this type of thing will continue and only grow worse. We can view such sellers as dregs all we wish, but the fact is that if there were not ready and willing buyers, they wouldn't have a market or niche to fill.
You know, some people might buy an AT coined because they just like it. I think some of them are really pretty, and worth a premium, even knowing they are AT. To each his own I guess
No, I saw a thread on cointalk where someone mentioned the seller. I remembered that I sold a couple coins to that buyer ID a month ago.
I have no problem with sellers selling problem coins. TO have a seller, though, post the problem free coin then what this seller intentionally did to it, makes you sick if you are a true numismatist concerned with protecting our numismatic heritage. What is even worst is this seller completely KNEW it was a AT and harshly cleaned coin, since he did it, and there is absolutely no mention of cleaning or AT, in fact he says "nicely toned". Fandi32 is a complete POS and I hope he gets testicular cancer. He is the type of dealer who gives good, honest coin dealers like Matt, TomB, and many other good men and women here a bad name. I know, I know, "but how do you really feel about it Chris?".
I missed the fact that he was doing it himself and not selling it as a known AT. I remember a thread about a guy selling AT and advertising it as such, and thought this guy was similar, my bad.
You haven't seen AT until you've bought from this guy! http://www.ebay.com/itm/1889-P-Morg...06?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item20eb3f070e But at least he's honest about it. This auction is for a beautiful 1889 P Morgan Silver Dollar, Rainbow Toned (AT)*, Cartwheel Luster, XF+/AU. My coins are a fairly inexpensive alternative to the very expensive similarly colored graded coins, I GUARANTEE THEM TO BE GENUINE.
I bought one of his coins a few years ago, just to see what it looked like in hand, and it wasn't anything like the pics. The pics are juiced. Yes, he's honest, I'll give him that, but the product just didn't wow me.
His coins are so radically AT though, you'd have to be an absolute noob not to see it. Case and point:
But obviously a lot of people like these coins. He's got over 13000 transactions and 100% positive feedback.
Oh I knew the coin I bought was AT, but I wanted to see it. He uses some sort of electrical process and the coins acquire color, but it's not like the pics. The coin I got was a dull gray with hints of color if you looked at it just right. It had neither the vibrancy nor the depth of a coin toned over time. And of course, the chromatic patterns are all wrong.
