I saw this listing on eBay and the price was very, very low and it looked old so I thought I'd take a chance on it. It was listed as 1752 Salzburg 1 ducat. I don't have a Krause for that century so I didn't know anything about it. I bid $3, got outbid and didn't think any more about it. Well, today I got a second chance offer on the coin for my bid. I see that the original person who won it left negative feedback saying the seller sent him a non-gold coin. I didn't even realize it was supposed to be gold. The winner had paid $120 for it, and now it's being offered to me for $3. Obviously there's a lot of warning signs with this, but I wanted to post this link and see if anyone who knows about these coins can tell me what this might be? Is it a fake, or a legitimate coin that he just misidentified? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...xKyAtiJ%2BnEzdk%2Bngw%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
It's a novelty replica, just like the one shown at the bottom of this page: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=40416
Thanks. Looks like I dodged a bullet by not winning it, though I never bid too much on coins I don't know anything about.
Aren't sellers required to spell out whether their coins are reproductions or copies? Even implying that you're selling a real gold coin when you're not seems incredibly dishonest. Seems like eBay should come down hard on sellers like that, or ban them if they don't cut it out. Or is it just a case of "caveat emptor"?
Actually replica coins are no longer allowed to be sold I believe, but this seller seems a little shady anyway. He had a few negative feedbacks. The only reason I was bidding on his auction was that I wasn't bidding very much and hoped I might get a bargain because other people would be scared off.
The funny thing is, if the seller says it's fake, then eBay will close the listing. If they don't say it, ebay leaves it alone until they get a few reports about it, or one report from the right person. Also, this particular coin copy I believe was one of the types made by Reader's Digest as a promotion.
