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Pillar of the Community
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Just won this one on flebay. It was advertised as ms66. If it is as nice in hand as it looks in the pics, it will be the best buy I have ever made. Opinions?   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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the pictures are a little blurry but it looks to be at least MS-63.
nice pick up!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The apparent lack of luster from the photos make me wary, but hopefully in hand it has luster.
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Moderator
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 Who was the ebay seller if you don't mind? David |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1599 Posts |
Nickelsearcher-it was hsturn (vintage coin co). Over 58000 sales, 99.9 rate. Got any information?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've bought several coins from them and they were all good. Hope yours meets
expectations... Is it slabbed? If not slabbed by one of the Big 4 a numerical value shouldn't be included in the description... Just sayin.. Paleoguy
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Numerical grades can still be used for raw coins in the auction body but you can only list numerical grades in the title with TPG coins. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nickelsearcher-it was hsturn Oh No! this guy always has pictures that look better than the coins. He has some of the best photoshop people working for him on ebay |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That coin looks to have a very nice strong strike, lots of detail. I would like to own one of those that nice any day.
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Bedrock of the Community
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here is one of this sellers photo's of a coin that didn't look anything like it in hand   As I said one of the best photoshop people on ebay. hopefully it will turn out well for you, I would just advise anyone looking at this persons auctions to take his photo's with a grain of salt even though he has seemed to tone it down on how much he alters the images it still makes me weary when I know what they can do with the image to make a dog coin look like the one posted above. A good deal is always a good deal no matter who the seller is but if you paid MS-65 money for it going by the pictures or description the seller supplied (MS-66) I would post some actual pictures of the coin once it arrives to be sure its graded correctly if you aren't comfortable grading the series |
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Yipes ..... I offer an apology to jprine for not getting back to him after his 9/17/10 reply to my question. My Bad.  That is what I expected ...... I assumed you would say either hsturn or Great Southern Coins ..... two well known photo-shop pros that sell raw coins that are ...... uhhhm ..... not what is expected in hand. I'll save my hsturn experience (a costly one that finally got resolved)for a PM if desired. The true question two-months later is 'are you happy with the coin?' Thats what matters. David Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I didn't realize this was a couple months old when I saw it on the active page, sorry for my comments but I would like to know if it met your expectations also
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was happy once I got the coin in hand. It is not a 66, but I really wasnt expecting it to be. I try not to buy expensive coins that are raw, but I bought this one for a really good price, so I am happy. Thanks for the input guys.
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Glad you are happy with it. It does appear from his extra clean photo, to have a hammer strike which is not usually the case for Stone Mountains.
If this guy is enhancing his photos, avoid this seller!
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Posted 09/16/2010 9:20 pm
