Why Would A Png Dealer Waste Their Time.....

They probably got stuck with them and now they are trying to stick them with someone else.

Maybe it is better than crack and spend, which gives even more false hope to neophyte numismatists.

Does seem a little beneath them.

I'm sure anyone would try to get rid of them. I'm just wondering, why does PNG have these?

When a dealer makes a bid on "the whole hoard", it's all or nothing. So there were 2 unattributed 22plains and he based his bid on that. He'll take this junk as part of that every day, and sell it for 10c or whatever he can get.

Just another thought, maybe he is trying to sell them for someone less fortunate and since he has more connections, they might sell. So, this could be a very kind thing that he is trying to do for someone, without thinking of what others may suggest.

In the description (at least, of the one I clicked on), it said bidding would start at $0.99 (as opposed to the $9.99 they are listed for). $0.99 seems much more reasonable, but still too much IMO (pretty much $0.25 is what I'd pay).

Seriously? Gold plated quarters?

That's really not fair, they are running a business and a big one at that. I've bought from them both on ebay and f2f.

What would you have them do? Have a completely separate inventory on ebay and then on the show floor? So the coin you want you can't see in hand because "it's only on ebay".

The only problem is that it takes them a day or so to take the listing down from ebay, and that's in part because they have a dedicated online staff. One of my dealer friends has a Wi-Fi access point and he'll take down a listing at the next time the shows slows down - that's preferable, but hard to do in a big organization.

And of course if you met them in a show and they were busy typing on the tablet to take down the listing for what they had just sold somebody here would be complaining that "I went to the show and they were too busy playing on their tablet to take care of me".