Ebay Questionable 2 Thalers

Yes! I have noticed as well, the person has at least a dozen separate accounts from which he/she sells these coins from. The description on all of them simply reads "coins" and when contacted, never responds.

Until... I mentioned I would report him her unless the listings were taken down immediately. You know what he said?

"So, do you want to buy the coin?"

Arrrggghh!

There are sophisticated operations in China where they buy a real high premium coin, make a cast, possibly even dies, use the real alloy and make hundreds of copies, hard to detect from the real thing. The dead giveaway used to be that they originated from China or Hong Kong. Considering that these creeps are sophisticated and the profits huge, it makes sense that it wouldn't take much to send people over, or recruit US located people to sell from the US. Seeing all of the sellers have low feedbacks and all the coins are Unc examples of the same high premium types, it should be safe to assume they are fakes that are really good. The secondary effects of this are frightening for the hobby because many of these people getting ripped off are going to try to get rid of their fakes using legitimate US listings, so we are all going to suffer.