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<p>[QUOTE="khay, post: 1314552, member: 34520"]Ok, not 100% sure this is the right sub-forum to ask this, but.. I have been buying some random 1/10 oz gold coins lately (my first gold - feels good lol) at close to spot, wherever I can find it. That means a few from eBay, too. I am very unsure of 2 of the coins I got on eBay, though... The first worrisome coin is a 1995 eagle. it is in a pcgs case, mafked ms-69... but viewed with a light at an angle, both sides of the coin look messy. The messy film appears to be on the coin itself, and looks like nothing so much as dried super-glue to me. What the heck? Is that normal? Am I worried over nothing? Or might it be a fake case, and a damaged (or even counerfeit) coin? The second coin I am unhappy about is a 1985 maple leaf. It came in a tiny plastc sealed envelope, supposedly how it was sent from the mint... but upon receiving it and looking at it, the plastic envelope had small cracks around the edges, and the coin was quite dirty. Fine, I can deal with that... but the real problem is that the coin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="khay, post: 1314552, member: 34520"]Ok, not 100% sure this is the right sub-forum to ask this, but.. I have been buying some random 1/10 oz gold coins lately (my first gold - feels good lol) at close to spot, wherever I can find it. That means a few from eBay, too. I am very unsure of 2 of the coins I got on eBay, though... The first worrisome coin is a 1995 eagle. it is in a pcgs case, mafked ms-69... but viewed with a light at an angle, both sides of the coin look messy. The messy film appears to be on the coin itself, and looks like nothing so much as dried super-glue to me. What the heck? Is that normal? Am I worried over nothing? Or might it be a fake case, and a damaged (or even counerfeit) coin? The second coin I am unhappy about is a 1985 maple leaf. It came in a tiny plastc sealed envelope, supposedly how it was sent from the mint... but upon receiving it and looking at it, the plastic envelope had small cracks around the edges, and the coin was quite dirty. Fine, I can deal with that... but the real problem is that the coin[/QUOTE]
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