1885 3 Cent Nickel - Yeah, Right...

For grins, I asked him to either post better pictures or email them to me. Nothing - wonder why?

Why on EARTH would these people bid if you cannot see the date in the picture? What if it is not what he last described it as? You would be burned for your own foolishness of bidding on something you couldn't identify in the first place! Not to mention, UGLY coin!

An 1885 3CN in G-4 on Numismedia is $444.00 and perhaps the people bidding on this ugly coin think it might clean up and can be a decent hole filler for a reasonable price. Personally, I wouldn't buy any coin from any web site I can't see a clear picture of.

Ed
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Yeah, I'm going to buy a key date coin from someone who sells video games.

I put this one on my watch list--it closed at $313.77

I just shook my head with this one.

This pic and posting reminds me of something that I witnessed a few years ago. There was a fellow in an antique mall who took a phone pic of a piece of furniture. He had put down a deposit on it and then posted it for bids on ebay. He said it was a one day auction. I presume that, if he didn't get his reserve met, he'd seek return of the deposit. Being unfamiliar with seller's requirements, I didn't ask him many questions.

My guess is that this so-called 1885 Three Cent piece is a damaged or altered 1865. Then too, a buddy of mine purchased a bag of world coins last year and found what looked to be an uncirculated 1872 CN Three Cent piece. He later learned that it was a Chinese counterfeit.

What conder said. You all keep forgetting that ebay is completely and totally biased towards the purchaser and sellers can go rot. It takes NO evidence of wrong doing on a sellers part for a buyer to initiate a case and make all kinds of claims that wreck a sellers rating. And the seller can do nothing to a buyer. And in an obvious case like this, there is NO risk on the buyers part. That coin shows up and isn't real, that buyer will have their money back so fast your head would swim.