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Lately I've been extensively scouring eBay for steals. Haven't really seen any. I'm wondering if anyone here has had notable finds on eBay and profited from them. Thanks!
-Sean
Search started in Sep 2011. 913,650 cents searched as of 9/24/13.
While I haven't profited from it since it's not going to be sold, my best find to date was my '55 DDO which I got out of a lot of 500 wheats that I purchased on Ebay. The person I bought them from was not a coin dealer, but obviously judging by his past history just an online yard-sale type seller. When buying lots of wheats I try to look for those types.
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
I just bought a set of 1943-, 1943-D, and 1943-S NGC 67 Lincolns for about 2/3 their normal price. However, the best I have done was a 1923-S I bought for $31 and had to pay $20 to get it certified as a 63RB. Now 23-S's are the rarest certified Lincoln with red and I have seen then go for as much as $1500. (Yes, there are fewer 23-S's certified red or RB than the 26-S's.) BTW, I think mine is the best 63 I have seen so far. I also paid $192 for the 31-D. Then NGC wound up paying me $350 plus another 1931-D MS65 RB under their warranty.
It's the one in my avatar photo. I wouldn't exactly say I cherrypicked it, but just got lucky purchasing from someone who had an old bag of wheats "in the back of a closet" as he described it. When I found it I got in touch will Bill Fivaz who lives close to me and he authenticated it and turned it over to ANACS at the FUN show. They graded it AU details/whizzed.
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
I cherry picked a 1970-S Proof Set containing a a FS-105 (030.6) DDO of which I broke out and sent to NGC and it came back PF65RD. I bought the set advertised as a Small Date Set.
E-bay is pickable, it takes a ton of looking, and great pic's! Look at my album here in my profile, ALL of my 1909 VDB #2 D.D.O.'s Have come from E-bay!!!!! One On The Way!!! I'll Update In A Few Day's!!! And Also #1's 2 of them 1 resold on the bay,and another graded P.C.G.S.63BN, and the dealer that submitted it bought it for 350.00. 41.00 coin+30.00 Grading=279.00 profit!!!
Last edited by coinman2009; 10-03-2011, 03:36 PM.
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I got a 1873 Indian Snow #1 in vg condition for 3.99 about 6 months ago. The item had a very bad photo and the description was brief leaving it open to grab cheap. When it arrived I was jumping up and down.
But on the other hand I bought a 1970 S small date that was an altered large date for 13.00. I have returned it hopefully getting refunded. Photo of the tool marks show in my photo posted here.
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