1928 Peace dollar

[Nutmeg Coin]

A friend thought this recently sold 1928 Peace dollar was probably an MS64:

 

 

 

Any chance great southern got this one right?

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1928-Peace-Dollar-Brightly-Lustrous-Gem-BU-Key-Date-Lowest-Mintage-In-Series-/291774700586?rmvSB=true&nma=true&si=HiFJkdDsSrBBWGo6EvFiyASuC24%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[johnny9434]

Any chance great southern got this one right?

 

i wouldnt put any stock into what they would say. just saying and jmo.

[Mark T]

Not a chance . There is something wrong with the coin that their tricky photography is hiding. Most likely the coin is cleaned. Their Gem Bu ++ will equate to something no better than MS 62 and the coin will usually have some other issue such as a cleaning. These guys are still in business on Ebay making money of people that don’t know any better.

[Walkerfan]

Not a chance . There is something wrong with the coin that their tricky photography is hiding. Most likely the coin is cleaned. Their Gem Bu ++ will equate to something no better than MS 62 and the coin will usually have some other issue such as a cleaning. These guys are still in business on Ebay making money of people that don’t know any better.

 

 

Precisely.

[Forest City]

After all these years the great ebay scammer Great Southern Coin is still at it. Who woulda thought

[BillJones]

A broken clock is right twice a day so anything is possible. But given their reputation I'd have see the coin, not their photos.

[Nutmeg Coin]

A major ebay seller told me the only way to make money these days on ebay is through shills; my guess is a lot of these higher volume operations have shill tactics. Hairlines can be tough to see in pictures which can easily knock nice looking coins down to 61/62.

[KMAG100]

Cleaned

[grip]

Not a chance . There is something wrong with the coin that their tricky photography is hiding. Most likely the coin is cleaned. Their Gem Bu ++ will equate to something no better than MS 62 and the coin will usually have some other issue such as a cleaning. These guys are still in business on Ebay making money of people that dont know any better.

 

+ 1

[Mark T]

When I started collecting again in 2008 I bought 4 coins from GSC. They were all grossly over graded and one was wire brush cleaned. I sent two of the coins back and had the two gold coins I purchased graded. I actually only lost about $50 on the two gold coins when I sold them because I did get them cheap. I have posted pictures of these coins in the past . Here is a blatant example of an over graded cleaned coin . You can see how their photo and lighting attempts to hide the coins surface issues. Remember I was just getting back into collecting back then, knowing what I know now I would have seen in the GSC picture that the coin was cleaned. Their grade was “near Gem Bu” something like that. It came back Au 58 cleaned.

Footnote , my picture is a scan so that in itself will take away any luster that the coin might have had.

[Nutmeg Coin]

They apparently create an illusion of quality; not hard to do on the internet....