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 Posted 11/18/2009  1:21 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add coinguybrian to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I don't know, maybe they're grading it F-15 or VF-20, but even at that grade, it can't be worth $3000! It's cleaned and pretty obviously corroded too, jeesh some buyers are crazy. I've had times when I bid 'high' on a coin I thought was worth $800 because I liked it ($750) and end up getting outbid by $500, but this seriously takes the cake. And no, I did not bid.

Just friggin' crazy, heh.

Oh btw, here it is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...TRK:MEWAX:IT
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 Posted 11/18/2009  1:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DVCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Is it wrong to point and laugh?
Maybe those 3 bidders thought--"I'll win this, no matter what!"
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 Posted 11/18/2009  2:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinguybrian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This can't be worth that much more than $1500, if not only $1000 with all the problems its got...
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 Posted 11/18/2009  2:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DVCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah...that makes more sense, seeing how that was obviously scrubbed to bare metal.
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The bidders may have just gone nuts because it is a fairly rare coin but they are out there if you look hard enough, Heritage auctioned 14 of them since 2008 with hammered prices between $402.50(a thoroughly abused G-6) and $37,375(an original AU-55). Below VF problem coins typically auctioned for less than $2000.
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$5K? That's a MS64 price--is that $2.5 really MS?
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 Posted 11/26/2009  12:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinguybrian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's probably MS and it has a strong strike, but I would not ever pay MS-64 money for it. Maybe AU-58 in hopes of getting an MS-62 or a little better.
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You can't fault the seller, though - that was a very well-written auction.
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