Was On Ebay And Came Across This!

there is something a little odd. It seems like one of those things that is too good to be true. Selling those gold and silver coins individually he would make sooooo much more money.

WOW! Just imagine sorting and cataloging all that. My wife would be happy for 2 reasons. She wouldn't see me for at least one month and she certainly would enjoy the jewelry.

They call it a horde from the 1800s but display modern Gold Eagles?

Whaaa?

After looking through everything and reading, there are only 55 silver coins for sale. There are a bunch of old bills, but nothing of great value. I think the total value of everything there is probably only in the $7k range, off the top of my head. I know nothing of the jewelry, register, art or plates, though. I can't imagine they are worth much otherwise they would be sold separately. It looks like a giant collection of bulk purchased world coins seeded with things of actual value.

Reading the whole listing puts it into perspective. There are 3 1/10th oz gold coins & 55 silver coins. From the pics it looks like maybe 7-10 of the silver coins are silver dollars. Lots of mint sets, but none are worth more than a few dollars. There are 216 bills. I don't have any idea what the $500 is worth, but 160+ are well worn $1 silver certs. With the exception of the 18k ring the rest of the jewelry is low dollar.

I'd be surprised if you could retail the lot for $7k. I won't be surprised if the bidding runs over that. IMO this is a run of the mill lot of older items that has been "seeded" with just enough stuff to get people to bid.

You've proven to have a nose for picking these things out scubu.

Think we should start a request for investigation drive?

There are 55 silver coins, however, they are pictured at least 18 times.



I count 26 in one pix.



Actually Serial # B00271510A




No FB since May 25 2010. I had to look through almost 150 FB before I found a single FB for an item over $20, just a handful over $10, and lots of 99¢ sales. Yet now we have thousands of $ worth of stuff?



Mostly culls, damaged, cleaned, etc.



Yet there are 29 pix of them, not counting pix of single notes.



Show of hands. How many ccf members have their collections of silver dollars and halves and IHC piled up like these pix? How about you paper money collectors? Anyone collect proof sets in random order?



The net result is a mess that can't possibly bring a good price, unless two Clewless Gnubeesâ„¢ with more dollars than sense jump on it. It wouldn't have taken much more time to take it from a train wreck to at least break it down into general categories.



Machine-rolled cigarettes in the 1700s?


Take a look at the frames. Virtually perfect. Originals were wood with overlaid plaster, gold painted, etc. Unless restored regularly in a museum, they dried out, got bumped around, and are missing chunks of plaster. Modern plastic frames don't have that problem.

Observations:

Anyone who has thousands of FB and has taken the time to sell hundreds of 99¢ items surely knows that the likelihood of finding anyone, even a dealer, who is interested in china, a cash register, coins, jewelry and paintings is slim to none. At best, offers are going to be based on one group of items, with the rest going along at sub-wholesale.

Could this be a hacked account? Possibly. ebay can tell better than we can.