Looks like a huge piece of scrap was struck into or added later by someone. The weakness of the letters could be a striking issue or a garage work over. Value, ONE CENT what it says on the back. _________________ Richard S. Cooper
You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
Well on the bright side I get laughs from looking at some of the damaged coins passed off as DDOs and rare errors. The funny thing is someone might even buy them.
Here's the 2 I just saw. The first one is a cent melted by a blow torch being listed as a "capped die - double die" the funny part is a guy bid for it. The buyer is an ebay reviewer that wrote articles on fake altered bills and on not paying ridiculus shipping. Yet he bid $9.99 for melted cent and $6.80 for mailing The seller commented "might only be worth the starting bid of $9.99.
The same seller listed an acid dipped thin cent as a "double die" for $275....
"1940 cent missing clad layer"???? Won't stick to a magnet but hey look the silver plating is not even sticking to the coin, his mouth fell off in the picture LOL!
Maybe feedback is misleading. It's best to read them carefully and see if the feedback was from junk like this stuff or a bunch of 1 cent ebooks or from selling real varieties to real buyers.
If sellers don't give it when they get paid and wait for the buyers feedback to the seller to give it to the buyer then the buyers feel ripped off but don't want to give a neg to avoid a retalitory neg. (adds insult to injury)
I don't contact the buyers since I assume they either have money to burn or they will say they just want examples of altered coins.
BUT the thing I see is some sellers get away with selling nothing but junk over and over and still have good feedback.
Just good for learning to watch the foolishness. _________________ Ed
The seller commented "might only be worth the starting bid of $9.99.
