I was tracking the coins below on Ebay. The auction has since ended. I did not see any red flags as to the authenticity of the coins. More photos and details about the coins would have been helpful from the Seller. Besides being an overseas seller do you see any red flags? https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/183410090004 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/183410152411
"Payment only by transfer, I no longer take PayPal". In other words, no buyer protection. "Sell or exchange 6 us gold coins, against gold 18k or 24k to melt", where each coin (if genuine) would bring close to five figures, from overseas, with no buyer protection? What could possibly go wrong?
Here are some photos. More detailed photos from original listing links above. Not asking "what could go wrong" simply asking for educational purposes if you see any issues that I dont.
If you're only asking about issues with the coins pictured, I don't know enough to comment on those types, and probably never will -- out of my range. Nothing trips my generic "cheap fake coins" alerts. But you asked about "any red flags" besides being an overseas seller, and I say "bank transfer only" is not just a red flag, but a six-foot-thick brick wall. Even if the coins pictured are genuine, there is absolutely zero safety in place for you with this listing. If you're looking for a bank address to which you can wire money with no expectation of receiving anything back, I'll see what I can do.
Those coins are blatantly counterfeit, and very poor reproductions at that. They may as well have had cartoon characters on them instead of who was supposed to be Miss Liberty. There could be no way that ebay didn't pull them.
Well the 1800 $10 gold alone is worth around $12,000 if genuine. However it does not appear to be so. I'd be surprised you even receive counterfeit coins made out of real gold with an overseas seller + no buyer protection. Also no one in their right mind would offer together a set of early gold coins like that: an 1800 $10 plus 3 early $5 types. These would all be sold separately since they're very expensive coins: if genuine. Not even Stacks or Heritage would sell such a set together.
The coins are all genuine, but have been ripped from Heritage and photoshopped onto a new background. https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-gold-coi...vip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137
Found the other pictures https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2982T/lots?noredir=1&start=0&display=list&sort_lot=3&view=30
Seriously?..... And I don't mean that is a derogatory way... I am first to admit as a hobbyist and not an educated collector that I could be wrong.... The portraits on the quarter eagles look correct to me however the classical portraits on the top two rows appear quite incorrect to me. Am I seriously wrong?
I don' think anyone here would argue with your knowledge, but do you have to be so nasty when educating members?
My first thought when I opened the Ebay listing was that those coins all looked good. Either the Chinese had seriously upped there game, or something else fishy was going on. I'm glad @TypeCoin971793 tracked down the other pics, to show where they had been stolen from. While I don't collect this type of material, the coins do all look genuine - as indeed they are.
It’s one thing to say you think they are fake. It is a completely different thing to say matter-of-factly that they are obvious and definite fakes when you are unfamiliar with the material.