Give Me Your Opinion About This Ebay Seller

Mostly details coins with damage, graffiti, harsh cleaning, etc, without any disclosure in the descriptions. But at least the photos are good enough to see the problems. I didn't see any obvious fakes, but it wouldn't be surprising if there were some.

I call questionable on most of these. Dealer is in Germany, yet his inventory consists of US coins in a fairly large quantity. Examples: 1917-P Standing Liberty quarters - He has 89 raw, 1 in an ANACS slab all the raw coins are exactly the same die variety from what I can tell, tiny little tell tale differences but they all appear to be from the same die pairing, only various differences in wear, damage, toning, etc. Same on the 1876 Twenty Cent coins, all of them exactly the same die pairing. I find that to be troubling to say the least.

On the other hand the coins don't jump out as being fake.

Now on to the Two Cent Pieces (which I know quite well) they all appear to be real and genuine, all of them are also extremely damaged and selling for low prices. The one nicer example has a known die crack telling me it's a good coin.

He hasn't updated his Facebook page since October 28, 2020 and his last posting was selling Trump MAGA hats. The listing before that is for a Proof 66 NGC 1907 Double Eagle Saint in High Relief for $77,999.99 and a Bid of $100K the Cert # is no good on NGC's website. NGC shows only a single PR66 NGC coin has sold since 2000 by Heritage and it was NOT the same coin. The coin was put on ebay by Danny Pfeiffer Rare Coins and it's now gone (dead link). His other expensive slabbed gold coins all check out and seem legitimate.

EDIT: I was able to get the NGC Slab look up to work the High Relief Saint appears to be good as well. No photos though on NGC site to compare. https://www.NGCcoin.com/certlookup/5773600-001/66/

I just find it strange he has so many of the same dates of some coins raw and all very similar looking, when even most US dealers would have trouble getting inventory like he seems to have, of popular collector coins in F-AU grades, most dealers would only have a couple at the most of coins he seems to have literal rolls of.

Nothing screams stay away, but nothing says confidence either. His company has been on ebay since 2014, a couple of major dealers I know are friends with him on Facebook, and he has some photos and posts about coming to FUN, ANA, CSNS, and Long Beach shows regularly over the past few years.

I'd just rather get my coins from someone a bit more local I think.

No returns, is not for me.

Seems like a junk dealer, or a pawn shop. There are probably fakes. Caveat emptor.

I remember a couple years ago one seller had a huge supply of slabbed 1890 Eagles. All AU's, and nothing obviously fake. It looked like a hoard, and they were listed for months with slow turnover. Maybe it was a birth year or a lucky number.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion ploopy. So long as we agree with you? I like having others with educated opinions, even if I don't agree. Informed decisions about which ebay people to stay away from is a major part of why I decided to join the conversations on this site. Andf yes, I am guilty of jumping on the wagon with the others who try to be a little more careful with where they spend their hard earned money.

Hello esteemed fellow numismatists. This is Danny Pfeiffer of DPRC.

We are aware of concerns about our recent listings. Please be assured that all coins on our online store are:
AI-verified by GPT-4 level heuristics
Subjected to a proprietary holographic resonance scan

Thank you,

Danny Pfeiffer, DPRC - Danny Pfeiffer Rare Coins

I take any use of those things now called AI to be a mark of shoddiness. An admission that a business lacks subject matter experts, or is too cheap to use experts. Instead pretends to use expert systems. Which everyone is aware they are not.

Proprietary holographic resonance scan sounds like meaningless jargon bingo.