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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3398699, member: 99642&quot;]I agree that eBay, and like sites, should do a lot more to prevent the sale of fake, copy, and/or counterfeit coins on their sites.</p><p>Concern about possibly buying a fake coin makes me work extra hard to authenticate the rare coins that I may bid on.</p><p>I&#039;m currently bidding on/looking at several China &quot;Fat Man&quot; silver dollars. I just won one of them. I bid on it, even though the coin weighed only 23.7 grams( 26.7 is normal ) because the seller is well known to myself and other <i><b>CT !! </b></i>members. After communicating with this seller and asking questions, I received suitable answers such as Yes, he tested the coin with an X-ray machine and Yes, it is silver.</p><p>Other sellers were not/are not as forthcoming. One seller, the one I linked 2nd above, insists that he &quot;found&quot; a bunch of Fat Man dollars in a group of &quot;old coins that he found&quot;.&nbsp; Yeah, Right !&nbsp; The one in the photo doesn&#039;t weigh right and he evaded answering my questions straight up, so I &quot;investigated&quot; him and his feedback and his buys and sells. Turned out he has been making a lot of buys from Chinese eBayers who just happen to deal in fake coins.</p><p>Another seller I questioned about his Fat Man Dollar, not only provided the weight(which was correct for the coin) but also provided an NGC slip with number, which I looked up and verified. It seems that NGC would not grade it because of &quot;residue&quot; on the coin but did authenticate it.</p><p>Another I&#039;m not finished with yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point being : If eBay would do it&#039;s job, I wouldn&#039;t have to do all of that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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