Help Con Or Not...is Ebay Burning My Wallet

ok new to this

Looks like a Austro-Hungarian silver Denar,
http://www.medievalcoinage.com/gall...habsburg.htm

I cannot speak to the coin or it's metal content, but as an ebay seller, I highly recommend doing the research *before* you make a purchase. Your concern seems to be whether or not it is gold or silver, perhaps looking for a good deal on gold. Same thing happens all the time with my sales and people trying to get good deals on silver without realizing that the item either isn't silver, or has a lower silver content than they thought.

Always, always, always do the research prior.

If I'm way off the mark I apologize, but that's the general gist of what I'm getting with your inquiries.

I can't help you with the coin but can say we ALL have been there at some point and time so don't beat yourself up too much; just try to learn from this experience.

There are few ebay listings that indicates the price. Here is one with catalog information,
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1563-Hungar...251186035933

In general, as others have said, these coins are common and can be picked up for £10 - £30. However this is a particually nice one so I'd put it at the upper end of that scale - if it's a rare date it might even be more. While you probably have overpaid a small amount (a few pounds) you now have a really nice example of that particular coin. If there is to be any increase in value over time - these top quality coins are where it's at, so in some respects you have chosen wisely.

If the picture is taken with a yellow-coloured light, everything will look yellower - and silver can look kind-of goldish. That appears to be the case here. For example, I would assume the yellowish-coloured background grid is actually white.

So I did a bit of fooling around with the colour balance, to make the background look whiter. This is probably closer to how it looks in hand:



I'm not very experienced with colour image manipulation; I'm sure others could make a much better effort of "cleaning up" the sellers pics. Of course, if someone was deliberately trying to deceive, they could manipulate a picture the other way, too, to make it look even more golden.