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Imitation Mexican One Peso
Imitation Mexican One Peso
Replica Coins

Exonumia

Job Lot of Imitation Mexican One Pesos
Job Lot of Imitation Mexican One Pesos
St. Gaudens $20 Mini Gold Coin
St. Gaudens $20 Mini Gold Coin
Oliver Cromwell Replica Crown
Oliver Cromwell Replica Crown
Victoria Gothic Replica Crown
Gold Plated Imitation Gothic Crown Replica
1927 Australian Florin Pattern
Pattern 1927 Australian Florin
Coin Replicas And Patterns (CRAP) on eBay
eBay seems to awash with so-called replica, restrike, and pattern coins, most of which are not what they are stated to be. eBay do not appear to care.
We have decided to start this page as a partial catalogue of these items. Unfortunately the title "Coin Replicas And Patterns" creates the acronym C.R.A.P., a word we would normally prefer to avoid, rather like most of the items it describes. Most of the items listed here should be described as "Imitation", "Fantasy", "Fake", or some other word or combination or words.

Gold, Gold Plated, or Gold Filled?
We notice many items on eBay described in their titles as gold, which are only gold-plated (sometimes called the even more misleading Americanism gold filled. Sometime the full description actually states the real metal composition, often it completely fails to do so. At best, this wastes the valuable time of many potential buyers, at worst it serves to cheat and defraud people.

Coins, Medals, or Medallions?
There are also many items being offered on eBay, and elsewhere, described as coins, which are clearly not coins. Again, sometimes the vendors are "honest" enough to describe them in the full description (or small print) as medallions, tokens, patterns, or some other euphemism, often they fail to do even this. On some occasions, the vendors use deliberately obscure and unclear descriptions in the hope that the mugs and punters will be fooled, and this seems to happen regularly judging by the astoundingly high feedback of some of these junk vendors.

Examples

Our Advice
Avoid all this stuff like the plague, and the people who sell it, and the people who allow them to sell it (eBay).

Corollary or Side Effect
One side effect we have noticed because of the abundance of misleading titles and phony descriptions, is that genuine sellers with a real coin find it necessary to add to their title "Genuine Original, Not Copy" or some similar wording. A sad endictment of eBay!

A Rash of Modern Reproduction Coins

Honest Seller
We did notice one seller, who appeared to be quite honest about "mini" coins, offering job lots of gold-plated mini coins at 16¢ US each. This member bucklesu is offering them at the lowest price we have seen, but presumably making a decent profit. When we notice him, he was offering different quantity lots of three different types, namely, $20 GOLD COINS, MINI KRUGERRAND COINS, MINI MAXIMILLIONS GOLD COINS.



...at the Lowest Possible Price

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