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Message:: [QUOTE="hasfam, post: 583899, member: 18414"]I am not a coin dealer and never was nor am I an expert, but I have sold coins on eBay in the past. Usually when we needed extra money for bills. Depending on the coin, it would be described as either a novelty, error or variety. There were a few occassions where I listed a coin as a variety but put a disclaimer in the description stating I was not an expert and that the coin had not been professionally attributed. In one case, Billy Crawford bought one of those coins for a couple of bucks and emailed me a few days after receiving the coin to tell me it was a new doubled die variety and gave me the new listing number. He said he was going to include it in his new book as well. This might have been around 5 or 6 yrs ago. I of course was never credited for the find because I sold it before it was attributed. I basically sold my rights to it. Anyway, I listed it with some certainy that it was a genuine variety but still put in the disclaimer. I haven't sold a coin on ebay in several years, but if I do again, I will only sell coins that I am 100% sure are the real mCoys. I have always been amazed at not the buyers and the weird things they buy, but the sellers and some of their over the top, blow-up descriptions of stuff that is worth nothing. And they are selling the stuff. Rock[/QUOTE]