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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2866614, member: 10461&quot;]Oh, no!&nbsp; YOU GOT CHERRYPICKED, and the other person then sold it for eleventy-six bazillion dollars! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Srsly, tho&#039;, that looked pretty intriguing, but it did also look rather like a fantasy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I once faced a similar dilemma with this Pillar dollar.&nbsp; Got it super cheap (like, $30-35-ish).&nbsp; It was super-sharp, and looked OK in many ways (right kind of edge, etc), but was also way too shiny and a looked little too good to be true in some ways.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe it <i>might</i> have been a genuine coin, but polished within an inch of its life.&nbsp; But I was never able to determine that for sure, and was too lazy or broke at the time to send it off for slabbing.&nbsp; I listed it on eBay, carefully stressing the fact that I had no idea about its authenticity, and made no guarantees, but still made good money on it and the buyer said he was happy.&nbsp; (Ready for some irony?&nbsp; He was in <i>China</i>.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Mexico-8R-1768-01500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>(It was way shinier than it looked in these pics.&nbsp; Like almost <i>mirror</i>-shiny, as if it had been chromed.&nbsp; Otherwise, it looked OK to me, though the missing letters were kinda weird...)</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] might remember this one, if he ever rises from his Rip Van Winkle slumber and ceases being a yeti around these parts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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