Check out this seller's listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/THIS-IS-A-LOVEL...87QQihZ015QQcategoryZ4182QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Question: How many clues can you find in this listing to indicate that this seller really is a moron when it comes to coin collecting?
AS FOR THE MINT I CANT FIND THE LETTERING,BUT IM NOT A PRO. IT COULD STAND A LITTLE MORE CLEANING?BUT I DO MY BEST! Plus he doesn't know how to use puncuation.
"IT COULD STAND A LITTLE MORE CLEANING?BUT I DO MY BEST!" MORE Cleaning!! Any more and there wouldn't be a coin left.
could be he's just a metal detector type, who sells what he finds in the ground. As that coin looks like it came out of the dirt
I'm going to have to agree but it still hurts. Think way back folks. I started collecting with a Sear catalogue set. Included was Nic a Date and a nice, cream coin polish. I still have my 1851 large cent that I cleaned up real nice! After almost 40 years it still has that sick color to it but it looked great to a six year old.
Apparently he's not the only one thats brain dead. The 6 people that bid on the coin are equally ignorant. I wonder if the winning bidder took the coin out to the garage and put it to the buffing wheel for a few minutes. I'm amazed it even had any bids at all.
I don't care enough about this particular fellow to stop and consider every possibility. It seems most likely that he just doesn't know any better. He might appreciate someone letting him know the error of his ways, then again, he might not.
Another thing that makes this fellow's auction all the more sad is that the coin listed is a 1832 Half Cent. With a mintage of only 51,000 it has to be considered among the rarest of all U.S. coins. And yet, it is in the hands of some seller that thinks that by polishing it he is restoring it and making it more valuable.
I agree with you Leadfoot, the guy is not being dishonest, there are a many who have absolutely no understanding of coins. My mother-in-law wanted to give my son a pile of circulated Morgans and called to ask me whether she should clean them to "shine them up" I told her no that they are fine the way they are and explained to her that cleaning coins makes them actually LOSE value. She didn't have a clue, so "Maybe someone should explain it to him" is not a bad idea. Just my two cents.
