I'd like to add one of these to my collection, and I found one for sale, but the seller is in China. Normally that's all I need to know to avoid it, but I don't want to discount the possibility that there could be a few honest people in China. Here's the pictures. Can anyone who knows about the series let me know if you see anything that says fake to you, aside from the seller in China?
Nothing obviously suspicious about the coin to me. There are some legit sellers in China. Most of them have NGC/PCGS slabbed coins among their inventory and you can verify the certs. If you want to drop the seller name here you'll probably get better feedback
Might be a stolen picture from a legit auction. They are expensive coins, if its cheap then its a con. There are many others on eBay, mostly from Germany. If you put Rupee instead of Rupie you get more results https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=german+east+africa+rupee&_blrs=spell_check
Nothing in those pics looks blatantly suspicious. Looks like a fairly typical VF version of one of the more common dates for the series.
I wouldn't do it. The example in the pic looks decent enough, but I've seen way too many fakes posted on Ebay from Chinese sellers to take a risk on it. There are, of course, a few exceptions, which can easily be identified by the number of professionally slabbed coins in their inventory, but they are few and far between. As a matter of principle, I do not buy from Russia, China, Indonesia, India, or Vietnam, as those seem to be the major purveyor of fakes. Just my two cents!
Thanks. I decided to go for it. His other coins seemed like things a collector would sell and not common fakes, and he did have certified coins listed.
