Obvious Counterfeit

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Yikes.....

 

Well, they're Canadian... but yeah that date font looks nothing like the legit coin.

 

WoW! I guess that's why they call it "FleaBay".

 

That's awful. I no longer waste my time reporting these. Fleecebay won't do anything unless someone with an inside connection reports it.

 

I have gotten that response the past few times I've reported. First there is an email thanking me and giving me an incident number. I think the "customer service agent" is a robot.

My opinion is that they are violating the US Hobby Protection Act: "It shall be a violation of the Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder for a person to provide substantial assistance or support to any manufacturer, importer, or seller of imitation numismatic items, or to any manufacturer or importer of imitation political items, if that person knows or should have known that the manufacturer, importer, or seller is engaged in any practice that violates the Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder." They are facilitating the sale of counterfeits and they know it.

 

The listing is down.

Z

 

Some sellers, who fully identify their coins as "replicas," are a service.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?ite...trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=asen1995-2

So there are two sides to the coin.

 

Sure, a "service" to bad actors who buy the coins and then resell them as real.

eBay's policy on this is crystal-clear. It prohibits the sale of replica coins, even if they're marked as "COPY". It's just not enforced in general.

 

People that knowingly sell fake coins as genuine are to me at the bottom of a editrf barrel.

 

Well, they should be, anyhow.

 

This. It's surprising how many people don't know that ebay policy prohibits even legally marked replica coins. And yet I've gotten the same "customer service" response when the seller states right in their listing that it's a replica. Ebay simply doesn't care as long as they're making money.

Ended by the seller. If ebay deemed it a counterfeit, it would get the "orange hoodie" instead of showing the ended listing. Here's the seller images in case it goes away.

 

I didn't catch that until now. I think they used a post-1901 Barber dime reverse, which is funny.

 

What about the funky S mint

 

I think they pulled it

 

Did I miss the point it is the wrong obverse as well? Stars versus legend obverse?

 

How right you are. It's a Frankencoin!