I feel awful.... 1916-D Mercury dime....

So I was looking through coins and came across a 1916-D mercury dime on eBay that the seller only had a picture of the reverse. I sent a message asking for more pictures and then this happened...


Picture from eBay.....




After....



He used some type of tool to get it out of the album and scratched the coin! It sure would have been a nice coin. I know it's not my fault but if I hadn't asked for additional pictures this would still be a problem free coin.

Feel bad for the seller. I'm sure he'll still get a nice price but not as much as before the scratch.

What do you think its worth now?

Anyone else ever seen anything like this?

 

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Is that a scratch for sure? Could it possibly be a hair sitting on the coin?

 

Oh no, it's a scratch. The seller told me what he did and said his dad is going to haunt him forever for doing it. He said he couldn't get it out of the album so he used a tool to push it out.

 

This is horrible.. I love mercury dimes.., did you get a refund?

 

He didn't buy it, just wanted additional pics, or so it sounds from his description.

 

Oh my bad, didn't read it carefully :/ shame for him

 

Um...

It also appears the seller cleaned it, look how much tarnish is on the reverse above STATES, the coin out of the holder only has one black spot in the same area.

Not only that, but the dime is in an album, not a folder. WHY would the seller use a tool to remove it? It would be impossible for that dime to be stuck to the point where a human pushing with his or her finger would not be able to remove it.

Seems to me the seller has no business being around rare coins if they used a tool to remove it.

 

Sometimes Detecto utters words of wisdom. I'm impressed.

 

i think the seller should be eating steak not cutting coins

 

OWWW a 1000 dollars coin ruined and people wonder y coins are worth so much money might as well have just taken and thrown 200 plus dollars in the trash just so he could rush to get it out !!

 

Okay, but the fact is that people who do not know coins often make mistakes that we may think are obvious and avoidable. It is very unfortunate, but he will likely learn his lesson, which is more than can be said for some people.

Other than having sympathy for the seller, the OP has nothing to feel awful about; he didn't force this guy's hand and only asked a very reasonable question. I would not touch this coin based only on either of the provided photos, and think it is fair to say that even if the OP had not asked for more, someone else would have.

 

What a tragic mistake.

 

If it's any consolation, the coin pictured above has not been professionally graded and as such, it has not been authenticated. For all we know this is just a common 1916P that has had a D mintmark added to it. If it is an altered 1916P then it is no big loss. The old saying goes there are way more fake 1916D Mercury dimes out there than real ones.

 

Hey, I think the seller did a great job ONLY getting that tiny scratch on that coin...


...when you see the tool he used to get it out:

 

To my eyes, the only one it could possibly be is #4, but with the poor photos....

 

hes the one that used the tool its his fault or maybe the scratch was already there thats why it wasent pictured . also why is it in the album backwards and if its in the album all he had to do was take the picture in the album.



well at least you didnt buy it . then it get scratched after the sell

 

Yeah exactly. If you bought it, he would have scratched it getting it out to send it to you, so you got lucky that it happened before the sale.

 

You would be surprised at the number of people who don't realize that the plastic slides are removable on BOTH sides of the page.

 

And you'd be surprised how many coin dealers I've known who, while figuring out a sale price, will put their fingertips right down on the face of a BU coin I'm about to buy...

 

Come on, this coin was never worth $1000, was it? Maybe, 5 bills on a good day.