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Rest in Peace
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Valued Member
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I guess nobody wants to pay the big bucks since it is unslabbed
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ah the old "My Grandpa's collection" routine.
Better than 'shipped from China'.
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Bedrock of the Community
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The poor pictures do not help either.
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Pillar of the Community
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the poor 23 people that nary a clue to what they are buying...oh well, live and learn
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Bedrock of the Community
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Wonder what the chances are it's real? Not slabbed? Not for me.
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Valued Member
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There are two days left on the auction
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Pillar of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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Umm yeah, that photo WAS stolen from the Flying Eagle cent website- notice the distinguishing mark in the middle of EN in CENTS  Reported... |
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Bedrock of the Community
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LOL, that didn't take very long to get yanked  |
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Pillar of the Community
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not at all, lol...i would say there were a handful of people reporting
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Rest in Peace
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What a great group of "coin detectives." Case solved in less than 24 hours.
I thought there was a site here at CCF that listed questionable dealers? I can not find it. Any directions would help.
Biokemist, could you explain the clue "the distinguishing mark?"
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Bedrock of the Community
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I would not consider the seller a "questionable dealer" since he is not even a coin dealer. He is more of a garage sale junk reseller judging by the feedback I saw with only a couple numismatic items buried in amongst power tools and electronics. As much as I would like to give the benefit of the doubt and think it is just an amateur seller that cannot take a picture of a coin, it is probably a bit more fraudulent than that considering the seller took the time to split the side-by-side photo from the FEC website into two photos- that is a very deliberate act. The mark I was referring to can be see on the original coin depicted on the Flying Eagle cent website- look at the center of the reverse and you cannot miss it. The seller is apparently a moron since he stole a picture that even a four year old kid could match up  |
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So the photo is a copy from their web site showing The Flying Eagle and their mark to prove it is from them? I'm confused on this. My CRS is happening
(Can't Remember Sh t)
Thanks
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Bedrock of the Community
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So the photo is a copy from their web site showing The Flying Eagle and their mark to prove it is from them? What they did was search the web (probably Google) for a 1856 flying eagle picture and since that is a very popular website it was probably the first one that popped up in the search. They then just saved the picture and then split the picture up that was showing Obverse and reverse in one image into two images (one of each side) and added the pictures to their own auction. I didn't see the actual auction so I do not know if they had actual pictures of their coin plus the ones from the web or they just used the ones from the web thinking no one would notice. This could have been an actual mistake if they do not sell coins as it is pretty common to just copy a picture from the web of a random stock photo of a product and they thought it was acceptable to do with this coin, but it is not especially if you do not tell the buyers that this isn't the coin they will receive |
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Thanks, I get it now.
Bryan, I really like your 7070, Brian.
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