Fake/Fake/Counterfeit Soviet "key Date" & "pattern" Coins On Ebay

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Riverbreak New Member United States 39 Posts	Posted 03/31/2015 02:19 am I wanted to post a warning about altered and counterfeit soviet coins being sold on ebay right now with relatively high pricetags under the name "Soviet Russian souvenir coins" by a seller based in Ukraine. These are interspersed with a number of legitimate listings. They're mostly scarce dates and varieties, including an almost complete 1958 set selling for $100 and quite a few mint pattern types as well. Most of the real mint patterns these fakes are based on are so scarce you'll never see them in your average auction market. The listing details say "uncirculated" on many when they've been buffed to death and wording is clearly designed to lure in people who think they're getting a great deal on the real thing since the prices are well below current values yet high enough to set a person back quite a bit for an erroneous coin. The quality of these fakes range from dead obvious to hard to tell at first glance. Some are obviously real coins that have been altered, others appear to have come out of a mould. It really wouldn't bother me if these were listed accurately as copies and set to a much lower price but I think this qualifies as a scam. I posted some few images and links to a few of these listings below, let me know if the links don't work: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-Kope...em3cf4d54900 http://www.ebay.com/itm/15-Kopeks-1...em3cf5db7535 http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Kopeks-1...em3aa4bc0be0 Report this Post to the Staff

SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 03/31/2015 10:10 am ebay specifically prohibits replica coins and the seller is plainly indicating they're fakes in both title and description. Typical ebay. Report this Post to the Staff
Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 03/31/2015 1:32 pm The coins for which you posted images have the look of being castings. Not my field for collecting, but thanks for the heads up in any case. Hope you've saved somebody from an expensive mistake. Colligo ergo sum Report this Post to the Staff
SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 03/31/2015 2:08 pm The seller plainly states what they are. Anyone who still bids it up gets what they deserve. Report this Post to the Staff
bobby131313 Forum Dad United States 24153 Posts	Posted 03/31/2015 6:16 pm All the copies are gone. Shop CCF Members on eBay. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 03/31/2015 7:11 pm "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Riverbreak New Member United States 39 Posts	Posted 04/01/2015 12:41 am Luckily It didn't look like any were hot ticket, though some had a few watchers. When I found the listings they were very unclear in their specifications, "souvenir" was the only real give away besides the pictures, and souvenir can mean a lot of things. I could tell they weren't the real thing, but a few looked pretty good. A few being sold were totally fictional. Maybe the information got altered a bit before totally disappearing? I haven't been online or on ebay to check since posting until now. The listings were quite vague and I've noticed they're all gone now. Report this Post to the Staff
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Fake/Counterfeit Soviet "Key Date" & "Pattern" Coins On Ebay