Tonight's eBay chuckle

Apparently this guy's been at it for a while, but this is the first time I've come across one of his auctions.

Mercury Dimes Various Dates Lot (20) UNC Greatly Toned 2 22 10

"Honest, we didn't mean to! Good thing we didn't discover this until we'd stored thousands of them that we're now listing on eBay, since we certainly aren't making more of them as we go along."

The photos are then run through the highest-quality Photoshop filter. (I can't picture a purely optical technique that would blur out the devices and fields this much without also blurring the coins' borders.)

Yet another example of things a 100% feedback rating does not guarantee...

 

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"Each coin tones differently particularly If the coin is a Morgan, Peace, Kennedy, Quarter, Nickel, Etc. and is unique to the coin therefore no two coins are alike."

So all dimes tone identically? That proofs they are no genuine - just look at the picture.

 

It's as if the coin gods swallowed a box of Day-Glo paints.

 

Antiques Made While You Wait!

 

From the collection of Timothy Leary?

 

I particularly like the color progression chart he put in with the pics. Nice touch.

 

At least it looks like he's got the technique(s) down pretty well.

 

AT always leaves the same natural toning look on coins.

 

Oh great. The TPGs will start labeling toned coins by liquor brand. I wonder how a Jack Daniels toned coin will look; especially after I down half a bottle.

 

'Greatly Toned' - tuned up for sure

 

Right after they swallowed the dimes, then waited for them to pass.

 

I should get some for the grand-kid's Easter baskets...

 

Red or white?

The wine... people, the wine...

Although could be the dimes too... if wine can taste like grapefruit, why can't a dime be described as a fine strawberry progression...

 

Looks like he polished them before he toned them.

 

Careful, you could put a kid with epilepsy into a seizure!

 

Are these what would be known as tied dyed coinage?

 

No longer available. $260.00 for the lot or $13.00 each.

 

And it was actually a completed auction, not an expired one! I guess some people are more colorblind than economical aware.

 

Agree on the polishing. These coins were destroyed before they were AT'ed.
Looks like they are all from the 40's, which is just melt value (unless there was a miracle 45 micro S or 42 over 1 in there).
$25 worth of silver sold for $260. I don't know if the seller should be congratulated or jailed.