ryurazuWatches and coins are totally different issues.
With watches there are actual interested parties like the makers who want to stop counterfeit sales because it cuts into their business. They hold a copyright. They are protecting their business. If they are going to be the experts doing the authentication - there is no problem they are experts. Let them confiscate all the fakes - FINE.
However that situation is far different from old non-monetary coins from countries that no longer exist. In that case, there is no one with the legal standing to confiscate anything. There is no one competent to complain about the sale of a counterfeit unless the counterfeit is monetary and is intended for use in circulation.
Now FRAUD - that is a Crime.
That is the only thing
ebay and/or the coin community should be at all interested in when it comes to coins. Fraud as it relates to coins is a numismatic deception that causes one party to overpay for a coin.
Coins that are over graded, damaged or altered are of course fraudulent.
ebay used to care but not now.
According to the
ANA the most serious problem is the influx of cheaply made Numismatic Forgeries coming from China and Eastern Europe.
The problem arises when you realize that in International parlance what is Fraud in the US may actually be legal in a place like China, France or Spain. In these cases there is no crime involved in making copies of old coins from other jurisdictions like the US.
This legal problem makes the only option to limit shipment to the US from places where laws are different. This was done with France. But China and Spain both threatened to sue
ebay if that solution was applied to them. Hence the "Let the seller beware policy" instituted by
ebay legal in 2013.
I wonder what changed between 2013 and now? Did China stop making knock-off watches?
I would hope that
ebay chooses which items to authenticate very carefully.
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