IS THIS SMALL AE A THOUSAND DOLLAR COIN?

But then you go down to the price and it says "Sold For".

 

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Missed that. I thought that was the asking price.

Boy. someone got burned. Then again, a lot of people have more money than sense. That's why they make Cadillac Escalades.

 

Despite what the listing says, you do not know what the coin was really sold for because of how the Make Offer listings are displayed when sold.

When a seller accepts a lower offer, the listing changes to SOLD but the asking price still remains as the selling price.

Here's a random example from the same seller (screen shot from the "sold" search results):


It was his usual schtick: post a tremendously inflated price, mark it 73% off (which is still a tremendously high price), and then entertain offers.

Clicking on the coin to see the original listing:



This makes it appear as if the coin sold for his asking price (the "73% off" price), when in reality we do not know the amount he accepted.

I have bought a couple of coins from him in the past which had the same BS 73% off/make offer. I made reasonable offers which were accepted and the original listing makes it look like I paid the asking price.

eBay games. Yuck.

 

I've done the same thing for coins I really wanted and that are quite rare. Not my proudest moments though.

 

Hmmm...I have done the same for rare / scarce / difficult to find coins in my historical areas of interest. (I have never purchased from that ebay guy, though.) Yes, the price may sting, but after it is all over with, I am saitisfied that I have captured a coin that I really enjoy, difficult to find, and fit within my historical collecting wants. Not a proud moment? When it is all over, a little time has passed to help the sting of the cost go away, I look at the coin and say: "wow, cool, and I have this one!"

 

In the UK and Australia at least, it is illegal to advertise that you are discounting an item, if it was never available at the "original" price for a reasonable period of time. It's illegal in the US too I hope?

 

When it comes to making a buck, very little is illegal in the US. Murder comes to mind . . .outright fraud occasionally. . .

 

Yes, it is illegal in the US as well.

 

You can find the price by using the price thing on the left side, the coin will disappear from search results when you go over the sale price

so the Honorius coin sold for somewhere between 1500-1550,

 

To answer the question of how an otherwise not interesting coin could go for a high price - It only takes two deep pocketed and dedicated bidders to have a coin go for three or more times than earlier prices. I would not want to get into a bidding war with @Alegandron over a coin both of us saw as special.
I would have liked to watch RBW and JD (two big time RR collectors whose collections have sold recently) bid on a coin they had to have.... like the following Cr 13/2 from the JD collection sold for 50,000 CHF vs an estimate of 20,000 CHF.

https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...s=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=

The coin in my RR denarius collection that fits this description is:

ROMAN REPUBLIC
C. Caecilius Metellus Caprarius. AR Denarius, ca. 125 B.C.
Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma right
Reverse: Jupiter in biga of elephants left, Victory above.
Cr-269/1
RSC-(Caecilia)-14
Syd-485

 

THAT is a GORGEOUS C. Caecilius Metellus Caprarius. Nice, Gene!

 

Since it's illegal in the US advertise that an item was previously available at a certain price, when it never was - can somebody in the US please report him to the relevant authority? Surely this will disrupt the business model that relies on consumer fraud to make a profit.

 

Like him or not, he has coins that your favorite dealers don't. I have bought three for what I considered reasonable prices considering the fact I have not seen another since. My most recent purchase was $175 for a coin "this coin" previously sold by CNG for 3x as much. I agree his business plan is not what I prefer but you can play his game or not as you choose. I doubt he cares. I prefer his game to certain big dealers who sell toolies and fakes. If you have watch his You Tube videos, don't say I didn't warn you, you may get even more upset.

 

lol I think many have bit the biller and dealt with him it appears. I feel slightly bad for people that don't know better and stumble across this guy and get all of their initial knowledge and coins there. His operation is dirty at best and fraudulent it appears normally.

 

Oh you mean the videos where he reads wikipedia pages? Lol.

But surely you never need a coin so badly that you need to buy from *him*?

 

The only way to make an hhonest buck in the US IS in public, state and federal office.

 

This guy is my KIND of seller. (the WRONG kind)