http://www.ebay.com/itm/Roman-AR-1-...505092?hash=item3f6c745d84:g:ex8AAOSw-CpX9Tt7 Pretty bad as it turns out!
6 bidders with 30 bids too.. crazy. How does a person get so much positive feedback though selling crap like that? Im not too familiar with ebay only bought a few things before
The bids are likely shill as it is a private auction. He has a number of similarly made fakes, different cultures. I dont do much with Ebay, but I do use it to keep abreast of the fakes in the marketplace, what is out there, where they are coming from, etc.
If you want to see some more real crap, check out Listia. I get rid of a lot of crap there too but not as in coins. Click on Collectibles under Browse and then click Coins. Bad photos, replicas, bad description, bad spelling, bad everything. Like a bunch of three year olds are posting. Sheesh.
Did you report all his lots? I know nothing about artifacts but the coins are all various degrees of 'funny'. The Pertinax might fool 5% of collectors while most are less than 1% dangerous. Of course if you sell one coin for those prices, you make more than a regular dealer would on a fistful of real coins. It only takes one buyer with more dollars than sense to guarantee these will keep coming.
He has one or two coins which might have been genuine ancients, but have been so badly tooled by this point that it is difficult to tell where the ancient begins and where the tooling ends. But look at this, it makes my blood boil. He has several bronze coins he's gold plated and is trying to pass off as genuine Roman gold coins. This ticks me off a lot. Way to ruin a nice Roman bronze. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401127121471
Really? Good. But I guess I need to brush up on late Roman bronzes. I don't collect them at all, but you'd think I'd at least be able to tell it was a phony.
Just a contrarian thought. Many of the bidders don't know it is a fake; yet some do and still want the coin even though it is probably bad. Case in point. Collectors of 8 Reales pay more for the CONTEMPORARY counterfeits on Ebay than for the genuine coins!
You can lead a horse to water but cannot make him drink. But you can lead a horse to a bushel of apples and he will eat them all and get sick or die. The relevance is here, you just have to figure it out.
I collect fakes and will eat all the "apples" I can get at the "right" price: yet will become a perfectly satisfied fat horse. Still after all these years.
