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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 68288, member: 1674&quot;]yes you are, assuming that <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com.au/RARE-1923-HALF-PENNY-very-fine-extra-fine_W0QQitemZ8327576256QQcategoryZ39393QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com.au/RARE-1923-HALF-PENNY-very-fine-extra-fine_W0QQitemZ8327576256QQcategoryZ39393QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow">this</a> is your auction.&nbsp; You are selling a raw key date coin on eBay; a coin that is commonly counterfeited, no less.&nbsp; It looks to me like the coin should sell for 2 to 4 times what is is currently selling for.&nbsp; With almost 4 days left though it could still go up in price quite a lot.&nbsp; But being a first time seller I suppose you need to be told that the vast majority of bidding on auctions on eBay happens in the final 3 minutes of the auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, as for what exactly you are doing wrong.&nbsp; First you are very new to eBay (only 1 feedback) and a buyer has every reason to doubt your honesty.&nbsp; Without a feedback history you have nothing to lose by taking the winning bidder&#039;s money, closing your account and running.&nbsp; I would never buy a key date coin from a seller with only 1 feedback, it is just too risky.&nbsp; During my resaerch of your auction I found twice as many fakes of this coin as I found coins being claimed to be originals, which means that without seeing the actual coin most buyers would be hesitant to pay realistic prices for a coin that they aren&#039;t certain of the authenticity of.&nbsp; Also, the second picture isn&#039;t helping you any.&nbsp; It makes th dirt on the King&#039;s coat on the Obv. look really ugly as well as making the stuff below the &quot;T&quot; in Australia on the Rev. look like Verdegris.&nbsp; If it is verdegris (copper corrosion) then that will seriously decrease the value of the coin, but if it isn&#039;t then your lightened pictures are damaging your ability to sell the coin colse to its true value.&nbsp; The rarity of this coin demands that it be sold in a different format than on eBay.&nbsp; If you were to have the coin professionally conserved (they would remove the dirt and verdegris without damaging the coin) and authenticated (in the US a company called NCS can to that) it would then be able to be sold at a reputable auction house for much closer to its true value.&nbsp; The other option is to conatct an auction house and inquire about their services.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know about the options in Australia, but in the US the big ones are ANR (American Numismatic Rarities), Heritage, and Stack&#039;s.&nbsp; Any of those would be able to professionally market your coin for you.&nbsp; It&#039;s just worth too much to try to get a fair price for it on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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