Unknown Coin Could It Be Worth 1,000,000 It's Like Someone Split A Penny

He probably hasn't punctuated properly his entire life. I seriously doubt he is going to start now at your request.

He got hostile real quick.

Well said, cwb.

@joeysanders and @otto

ad hominem comments never lead to productive results.

Jeriminicho
What you are hearing is honest replies.
Just because you don't like the answer to your question
you should not be rude.

You were not honest when you started this post ..
asking about a error coin you saw on ebay.

When it is your coin or as you say your sons coin.

The proper approach would have been
"This coin was found while roll searching"
Than ask for opinions.
You would have gotten much nicer replies,
but you would have still gotten, it is a
damaged coin.

If you would have asked about the Mercury dime ..
that is listed as full bands.
The term should be Fully split bands.
The coin listed does not have fully split bands.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1940-d-merc...AOSw2xRYXylM

There are many good people on this site. All
willing to help others.

You coming on here, being rude and calling names
will not work at all.

All I'll add is that if your son reads this, maybe you shouldn't be calling people names because they don't agree with your get-rich-quick coin. He should learn honest back and forth for proper information. That has not happened in this thread, from either side really. I'm sure this great site and its even greater members can forgive a rough start and keep you and your son amongst us, and help us all learn.

Yes, there are coins that split after being struck. I own one:



But it's 160 years old, was authenticated by a major TPG and sold by a major errors dealer. And it's not worth $1M, not even 0.1% of that.



The reason you see lots of ebay ads is not that the site is owned by ebay, it's called advertising. ebay (and other sites) by ads on sites that have content they think might drive traffic to their site. Usually common interests, like a site about coins to a site selling coins.

Third any idiot can put anything in an ebay listing. Whether true or not, whether reasonable or not. It's only worth the price if somebody is willing to pay it.

I value my cat at $10,000,000. If somebody offered me that much, I wouldn't sell him. Makes the 'valuation' meaningless. If NOBODY offers me 10,000,000, it's still a meaningless valuation.

The glare on the mintmark is consistent with the lighting on the rest of the coin.

Wow, what an exchange. I am not experienced with split coins and can not contribute to that line much. The penny looks ground down to me though, I have worked in metal fab before and it looks like it spent some time on a belt before pocket wear smoothed it. The issues with the other three coins on ebay are different. They all need at least suitable photos to sell. I too had issues with quality photos of coins, it is not easy with a phone camera. Use a short jar to stabilize the shot.

1925-S Peace dollar, Raw listed for $100. The photo would have been muck better if the coin were removed from the zip-lock bag. It looks like it may be AU to MS, difficult to tell. IF it were slabbed and graded MS-60 it would be worth $100, but it is not.

1940-D Mercury dime, raw listed as FSB for $100. Again, the photo does not backup the claim. You would need a high quality photo showing the FSB clearly. Even if it is FSB it is not slabbed. Per PCGS auction histories, 1940-D FSB graded coins have auctioned at $100 or more from MS-66 and up. This coin would have to be graded. Raw at best, maybe $60.

1910 Barber, raw listed for $50. Again the photo is not helping any. This looks like about VF maybe EF(XF). which puts it's value from $8 to $20.

I did not go through the trouble to write this or research the values to be rude, condescending, or anything like that. This is my honest evaluation of what I see of the coins posted. As stated this is my evaluation and subject to my opinion. I hope all can calm down and maybe help you with photography of coins which is important. There is a forum here dedicated to that. Much of my statement was learned here at this site in the last month. I have been collecting since I was 15 in 1981. Maybe this will help when you re-list the coins.

They only have two listings remaining: the Barber and Mercury dimes, the latter of which I can see has been modified based on our members' advice. Some progress...