Royal Canadian Mint "Colour Technology" Test Tokens

The starting bid price $2,500 plus taxes and buyers premium is ridiculous for a partial and incomplete set. I'd be willing to part ways for my complete set.

I just don't like Geoffrey Bell's DISHONEST slick marketing skills where they plagiarized my description, specifications and sentences and pretend they found this amazing discovery. They should state 250 sets were issued, but seemed to have conveniently not to plagiarize that material fact for these test tokens.

And obviously, the Geoffrey Bell team cannot think for themselves using their own words, and had to also copy my title with the same quotation marks of the Royal Canadian Mint "Colour Technology" Test Tokens.

Besides that, I am indifferent if these tokens go through the roof or are worth a few bucks.

I am livid at that fact that they STOLE my words for their own self interest and benefit, without acknowledging that they obtained this information from my posting on this community forum. All they care about is achieving top dollar and fame. Don't pick and choose what you want to plagiarize, and forget to state 250 sets were made.

Because of this I would never use their services or purchase from them. Integrity and principle is paramount for any business, which they completely lack. So much for them stating the following in their catalogue. "Our integrity and honesty are paramount to us at all times and we are not reticent to tap the top expertise in North America to help us with attribution."

Well 3500 plus juice and tax, close to estimate, quite a lot for a recent RCM token

@Coinsplus: Did you ever contact Geoffrey Bell and express your displeasure with their use of your information?

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that an underling at the company wrote the description and didn't cite sources to those who reviewed the catalogue. The details should have been checked/sourced, but things do slip by.

I wouldn't trash the entire company or call them dishonest when the mistake was likely made by a single individual.

I didn't bother contacting them. There is no point as it was already done. I got messages galore from fellow members on this forum thinking it was my tokens that I put up for sale with Geoffrey Bell auctions as they not only used my words but also described a collector who attended the conference that managed to obtain the set. So, when someone puts 2 + 2 together, the assumed seller was me. Which is not the case.

I posted this back in 2015, wanting to share my findings with fellow collectors, but when someone takes and plagiarize all my information (title, description and specifications) for their own COMMERCIAL purpose especially to garner interest in their auction without citing sources, in my opinion, this just lacks integrity, honesty, and credibility on their part. Pure laziness and greed. No matter who it is, anyone that has completed high school and/or post-secondary education knows that plagiarism is wrong and unethical.

I have other modern RCM Test Tokens which have never been seen before, and I am hesitant to make those known on this forum because of this bitter taste this recent auction leaves me with. I apologize for this rant.

This same auction company sold a 1970 Manitoba gold dollar a couple of years ago, a coin they know is property of the RCM and illegal to possess or sell. Just one example of their lack of integrity. I could go on.

Thanks, I will consider placing my test token set for sale in an auction (excluding Geoffrey Bell) in the near future. I will have the set including the original mint folder available.

This set will continue to be challenging to find and still rare, as most samples were distributed to employees of central banks and are in foreign governments' collections.

I love to share knowledge of rare findings, but will limit that to local fellow collectors that I see face-to-face. As a moderator on another forum, I certainly take pride on what I post and share, but do not appreciate or tolerate businesses exploiting without citation, and 'selectively' plagiarizing material information to the detriment of fellow coin and paper money enthusiasts.

https://www.icollector.com/Undated-...lo_i33010208

My be a little off topic but all Tokens have some value. Geoffery Bell just did a sale and I was very impurest on the demand and price they brought.