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<p>[QUOTE="Long Beard, post: 8362897, member: 108674"]First and foremost, Welcome! My greatest issue on the subject is the word play. Over the many years of being on EBAY, it was "Original", "Found in a vault", ect. These have almost disappeared and replaced primarily by "Unsearched", which is where it becomes tricky calling them out as to pushing phony wrappers or fake coins. The vast majority of those you reference are either dealers with a huge supply or an individual who buys them by the bag. They are then tubed without searching them. Quite often they may throw in a Mercury, Barber or other cent such as an Indian Head on the ends. So technically they are not lying or violating the EBAY policy on fakes and replicas. Misleading, perhaps. As collectors we simply need to comprehend the listings before making a purchase. Yet I agree, this is extremely difficult to the novice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Long Beard, post: 8362897, member: 108674"]First and foremost, Welcome! My greatest issue on the subject is the word play. Over the many years of being on EBAY, it was "Original", "Found in a vault", ect. These have almost disappeared and replaced primarily by "Unsearched", which is where it becomes tricky calling them out as to pushing phony wrappers or fake coins. The vast majority of those you reference are either dealers with a huge supply or an individual who buys them by the bag. They are then tubed without searching them. Quite often they may throw in a Mercury, Barber or other cent such as an Indian Head on the ends. So technically they are not lying or violating the EBAY policy on fakes and replicas. Misleading, perhaps. As collectors we simply need to comprehend the listings before making a purchase. Yet I agree, this is extremely difficult to the novice.[/QUOTE]
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