FDC? Don't think so.

[goldhunter]

I am disappointed  by so many Auction houses, supposedly highly reputable ones at that, using the description FDC to describe coins which clearly are not.

Coins which have visible hairlines and handling marks are often given the FDC description.

This is often the case with the 1937 Gold Proof 4 coin set £5 to 1/2sov. Very few, if any ,of these 1937 sets are FDC

It is dishonest and is in breach of the trades description act, stop doing it.

 

[LawrenceChard]

1 hour ago, goldhunter said:

I am disappointed  by so many Auction houses, supposedly highly reputable ones at that, using the description FDC to describe coins which clearly are not.

Coins which have visible hairlines and handling marks are often given the FDC description.

This is often the case with the 1937 Gold Proof 4 coin set £5 to 1/2sov. Very few, if any ,of these 1937 sets are FDC

It is dishonest and is in breach of the trades description act, stop doing it.

 

It could just be simple grade inflation, a.k.a. exaggeration. Of course, as FDC used to mean perfect, then the exaggerators a.k.a. salespeople would look stupid and dishonest if they had to start saying slighly better than perfect, much better than perfect, perfect+, perfect++, gem perfect, etc.

I have long suspected that it is used not so much as a coin grade, but as an acronym for the people the hope will bid for and buy it.

I think we should invite guesses and creative thinking to provide an expansion of the acronym F.D.C.

I wonder how may will be polite and printable, and how many will be ******* or terrible.

😎

[Stuntman]

Fundamentally Deluded Classification?

Frequently Damaged Coin?

Fooled, Duped, Conned?

Flippers Don't Care?

[dicker]

I replied on another thread yesterday along a similar theme.  

Whilst a punter on ebay may not know that fingering a proof with greasy hands they have just buttered their toast with would ruin its desirability, auction houses and dealers know what FDC means.  Others on eBay will no doubt have been offered less than spot by a dealer for a proof covered in Country Life fingerprints and chuck it on eBay.

I buy from auction but generally Victorian Sovs rather than coins that are FDC.  If I bought one that was less than FDC, But advertised as such, I would return for a full refund.

To @LawrenceChard‘s point, I see a lot of coins in 2x2 card holders with wholly inaccurate descriptions - primarily from the US.  The below vile example is, of course on EBay from the US.  You will find plenty more like this!

F*****g Deceitful ****s

Best

Dicker

 

[LawrenceChard]

3 hours ago, Stuntman said:

Fundamentally Deluded Classification?

Frequently Damaged Coin?

Fooled, Duped, Conned?

Flippers Don't Care?

Your score so far:

Polite and printable: 4

Others: 0

😎

[LawrenceChard]

13 minutes ago, dicker said:

I replied on another thread yesterday along a similar theme.  

Whilst a punter on ebay may not know that fingering a proof with greasy hands they have just buttered their toast with would ruin its desirability, auction houses and dealers know what FDC means.  Others on eBay will no doubt have been offered less than spot by a dealer for a proof covered in Country Life fingerprints and chuck it on eBay.

I buy from auction but generally Victorian Sovs rather than coins that are FDC.  If I bought one that was less than FDC, But advertised as such, I would return for a full refund.

To @LawrenceChard‘s point, I see a lot of coins in 2x2 card holders with wholly inaccurate descriptions - primarily from the US.  The below vile example is, of course on EBay from the US.  You will find plenty more like this!

F*****g Deceitful ****s

Best

Dicker

 

1) Was "F*****g Deceitful ****s" the listing title?

2) Looks like 3x3 card holders might be necessary.

 

[dicker]

The best are the Morgan’s advertised as

”Blast white” - translated this means they have been dipped in E-zest.

[LawrenceChard]

6 minutes ago, dicker said:

The best are the Morgan’s advertised as

”Blast white” - translated this means they have been dipped in E-zest.

... and lemon zest for gold?

😎

[dicker]

Just now, LawrenceChard said:

... and lemon zest for gold?

😎

Whatever the locals buy off of some awful shopping channel no doubt!

[LawrenceChard]

Just now, dicker said:

Whatever the locals buy off of some awful shopping channel no doubt!

off of?

😎

[dicker]

Apologies for my awful English.  “From”

[James32]

Funookin dim counters 

[LawrenceChard]

On 19/06/2022 at 17:37, dicker said:

Apologies for my awful English.  “From”

I should think so!

😎