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seagold30 eBay Listings Using Our 2000 Queen Mother Centenary Proof Gold Five Pound Coin Reverse Photograph
seagold30 eBay Listings Using Our 2000 Queen Mother Centenary Proof Gold Five Pound Coin Reverse Photograph

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2000 Queen Mother Centenary Proof Gold Five Pound Coin Reverse Photograph
2000 Queen Mother Centenary Proof Gold Five Pound Coin Reverse Photograph

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seagold30 in eBay Copyright Theft
seagold30 of london (sic),, United Kingdom, eBay cheat used our 2000 Queen Mother Centenary Proof Gold Five Pound Coin Reverse Photograph without permission to sell his own cupro-nickel (base metal) version in direct competition with us, and mislead any potential buyers by showing the near mint condition gold proof coin shown in our photo.
Crook!
Cupro-nickel five pound crown coins look different.

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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 70; with 100% positive according to eBay.

eBay Copyright Thieves
Many eBay vendors use our coin photographs to sell inferior quality coins on eBay. These eBay members are dishonest and should be avoided.
We believe eBay profits from IP rights infringements (copyright theft), and does so knowingly, only removing infringing items reluctantly, if at all.

Sample Listings
Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
seagold3032056658435615th Jul 2010the Queen Mother 100th birthday - £5 Collectors Coin£25
seagold3032056681080725th Jul 2010the Queen Mother 100th birthday - £5 Collectors Coin£25

Sample Listing

the (sic) Queen Mother 100th birthday - £5 Collectors Coin
An Excellent Present for Any Coin Collector
Brilliant Uncirculated Coin very limited edition, you will be proud to be the owner of one of those (sic)
This coin was mited (sic) in 2000 the year of the Queen Mothers's (sic) 100th Birthday
Coin Description
Diameter: 38.61 mm
Wieght (sic): 28.28 gr
Metal: Cupro Nickel
Observe (sic): Queen Elizabeth 2
Reverse: Queen Mother
PICTURE JUST FOR ILLUSTRATION

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin images on the internet. We strongly object when lazy and dishonest people decide to use them without a by your leave or thanks, doing so in competition with us.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
This particular eBay seller not only stole our high quality copyright photograph of a gold proof £5 coin, but failed to inform potential buyers that the set in the photograph was not the one he owns, or that they will be bidding on, although he did add it was just for illustration. This is deception.
Sadly, it is also typical of eBay!
The special finish on the gold proof makes it look far superior to that on the cupro-nickel ordinary circulation coins, so that anybody bidding on his item expecting to get the perfect coin in our photograph would be rightly disappointed, and feel cheated.
He also described them as "Brilliant Uncirculated". The Royal Mint reserve this description for their specially produced collectors' versions, as opposed to the "bullion" circulation versions. The B.U. version comes in an attractive folder. This eBayer makes no mention of a folder, so his is probably the very ordinary circulation version.

Price
He was asking a starting price of £25 each for his coins.
We sell silver proof versions, perfect FDC with box and certificate for only slightly more, the Brilliant Uncirculated specimens in folder for £11 each, and don't usually bother to offer the loose ones as their condition is too variable.

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