I haven't seen this subject addressed here. (maybe I missed it) These coins are selling like hotcakes on Ebay, some at high prices, but mostly low. Any comments?
he's just one of many fake sellers on eBay. I added him to my fake seller list last month http://www.lateromanbronzecoinforum.com/index.php/topic,1218.0.html
Also there's some joker from "Yugoslavia" selling fakes of rare emperors - Laelianus etc. eBay should be cracking down on this, like they crack down on fake Prada - but they do nothing. There's an attitude that the buyers deserve being conned, because they didn't do their research. I disagree with this. It is the criminals who are to blame. Clueless grandmothers who fall for phishing schemes don't deserve to be treated like that either.
Hi @GregH, Prada has a trademark and can sue. Laelianus, not so much . "I feel your pain". - Broucheion
eBay (in partnership with NGC) actually charges potential bidders $5 for a "preliminary opinion" of whether a coin is genuine or not! You don't think they'd cull the fakes for free do you? https://coinweek.com/ebay/ngc-and-pmg-partner-with-ebay-on-expert-review-service/ https://www.ngccoin.com/expert-review-ebay/
Just out of curiosity, to see what constitutes an expert opinion from NGC looks like, I paid the $5 for the service, and never heard back from them. So much for that....
This is akin to running a jewellery shop, selling zirconia as genuine diamonds, and then charging a fee to tell the customer whether your products are real.
Ha! I was thinking about doing the same thing. I think the NGC web site says, that they will give their expert opinion, within 2 business days of the request. How long ago, did you submit your request? Here is a screen shot, from the NGC web site listed in @dltsrq's Post #8 above.
P.S. : I wonder, if the NGC service, of an expert opinion about Ebay coins, has been discontinued. I cannot seem to find a link to the service, from the NGC home page. The only way, that I have found, to get to the above web page, is to follow @dltsrq's link in Post #8 above. Perhaps they forgot to delete the old web pages, from their web site.
Here is another "Moroccan" fake, along with the fake's origin The upper image is an S-marked replica by Petr Sousek from Antiquanova mint. The lower image is on eBay now, from a seller in Agadir, Morocco, and is currently at $9.50. Same guy has an "UNRESEARCHED ANCIENT EID MAR SILVER DENARIUS" currently at $47.
