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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1257540, member: 27043&quot;]Eh...unlike most &quot;ebay scam&quot; posts around here, I can at least come up with a perfectly plausible and sensible explanation for this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lady&#039;s father passes away.&nbsp; As executrix of his estate, she opens up his SDB, and finds 25 Double Eagles in there.&nbsp; She has no idea what they are, but they look valuable, and he DID keep them in a SDB.</p><p><br /></p><p>So off she goes to the nearby LCS with one of them, says &quot;What can you tell me?&quot;&nbsp; He explains what they are, notes they are common date coins of no real numismatic significance, and offers her, oh, 90% of melt...so, call it $1600 bucks.&nbsp; He then says that&#039;s a bit below the price of gold, but he has to make a profit, yadda yadda.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, she confides in a friend at work, asks what to do.&nbsp; He says &quot;List them on E-Bay.&nbsp; You&#039;ll get maybe $2000 each for them.&quot;&nbsp; She&#039;s never done E-Bay, so she creates an account...not knowing that a new account will be &quot;suspect&quot; for such a high dollar auction...and lists her lot, minus the 2-3 nicest coins she&#039;s given to relatives, or kept for herself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, she really won&#039;t be back to the coins until after the auction, because they&#039;re still in the SDB (on advice of her attorney/friend/banker) which is quite a ways away, since it was Dad&#039;s bank, not hers.&nbsp; So, she doesn&#039;t intend to drive all the way over there, just to photograph the coins when, as she quite correctly says, the EXIF info on the images will establish the date of the photograph.</p><p><br /></p><p>=================</p><p><br /></p><p>Not saying that story&#039;s true...or even any part of it...but at least THIS auction has a believable possibility behind it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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