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Valued Member
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Check out this sellers Lincoln cents for sale on ebay. I'm no expert, but they all have the same unnatural tone. Even where the coins show wear, still same tone. Like they have been cleaned and dyed. Not a spot of dirt,fingerprints,gloss or toning. They look kind of muddy and soft. Do people do this to coins? Or is it just my untrained eye. nancye913 |
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I'm new to this forum, so how do I check out the e-bay seller?
Terrell
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United States
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I personally have never seen ones like that but most of mine are extremely circulated like G-F. I agree something a little fishy. I never buy coins from anyone with less than 100% feedback.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Can't comment on the coins, they do look very alike? Having said that 99.9% +ve feedback with over 5000 is very good.
With the way feedback works now it's possible for any seller, however good, to pick up 1 bad feedback per thousand. I certainly would not hold that against them.
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United States
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Hi, After looking over some 10 auctions, I'd have to agree with your sentiments. For starters, the fields are remarkably clean for circulated Lincolns. Below is one auction photo that I've enlarged, but done nothing else. Does anyone notice something peculiar?   Well, I do. After using photoshop for the last 15 years*, I strongly suspect details in the fields have either been blurred or "cloned" away.
The appearance is unnatural, and I'm equally skeptical that anyone could consistently hand-pick such clean coins. I sure can't. That Toolhaus link confirms things too. *Here I'll add that I never edit out details on a single coin I sell.  Edited by KurtS
11/09/2008 4:30 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Either the coins or the pics have been doctored (or both). There are several sellers on ebay whose coins are just too uniform to be on the up-and-up. I would never buy from this seller myself. All my own opinion, of course For an example of a similar type of seller in silver coins I would check out 'theconsignmenthub'. Edited by halfabustisbetter
11/09/2008 4:47 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There's danger here sherry! Run Forrest Run!
This is my quote from an earlier post. After further review, I did enter a few bids to see I could pick up a few of these cheap (at VG prices) and remove a color this seller has added to the coins. I'll let you know if I win any later tonight. "Win" has to be taken in the context of the risk! |
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United States
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The coin is too "light" to not have been messed with. As I put in another post, the Las Vegas surveillance people say "jdlr." just don't look right.
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I strongly suspect details in the fields have either been blurred or "cloned" away. I had the same "jdlr" feeling (thanks, numismo) but couldn't put my finger on it either, but I think you nailed it. The area under LIBERTY looks very smudge-y, and the area from the inside of the 3 to the top of the D look distinctly less unnatural... Here's another one that I pulled off a current auction- all I did was blow it up by a factor of 3 and re-save it.  Compare the area between Linc's head and "GOD" with the area between "IN" and "GOD"- in particular, look at what seems to be a hard corner underneath the I. There's another rather odd-looking corner just underneath the 13 in the date. One more, again, magnified 3x- this auction is for a 1922 "weak D/no D"-  Odd how it kinda looks like there's a perfect square just under the 22 where the mint mark would be, with a corner even jutting into the rim... really, really odd.  Edit to add- I used "ask seller a question" to address the '22 (item # 330297355938) Are you sure it's a "weak" D? To me it looks more like a "photoshopped-out" D? Let's see if I get a response  Edited by PennehChaos
12/30/2008 8:02 pm
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United States
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Its very questionable. Notice that there is no return policy. A true indication to me.
Kurt is right about photoshop artifacts.
Jim
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I bought a few of these Lincolns and they are photo-shopped and/or re-colored in the images provided.
That said, the coins were "cleaned" of any artificial coloring when they arrived and were good coins for the money. I wouldn't add this person to my "favorite sellers" list but was happy with the purchase.
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