new fake sellers added to list

[Victor]

here's a fakeseller from the UK with some pretty bad fakes...but people are still bidding on them.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/malcanders0n


thankfully, he does offer an unconditional guarantee! 

Authenticity:
 All items are unconditionally guaranteed to be genuine and they are described
in an exact and credible way taking their origins into consideration.
Should anyone not authorise the authenticity of the items purchased,
we will give you your money back in full !
All items have been purchased from collectors and auctions.

[Victor]

a fairly new fakeseller from Germany

lampsack_gallery 

https://www.ebay.com/usr/lampsack_gallery


he even has a cute disclaimer--

"Please note that I am not a certified expert and it is possible to confuse the time and place of production of this item. My description is based on the information I received when I captured this item from its owner. You have 14 days to do your check."



another new fakeseller from Greece--  ivtas4

https://www.ebay.com/usr/ivtas4

some of his listing below with the orange background

[Victor]

I just added pana_nis to the list.

He sells mostly dodgy looking artifacts, but has some coins. A few look authentic, a few look fake. At least one negative feedback for selling a fake.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/pana_nis

[Victor]

this person is selling a lot of the same terrible fakes that you frequently see on eBay.

It's hard to feel sorry for the people that think this Eid Mar is genuine..."a fool and his money are soon parted"

I added him to the fakeseller list in October.


https://www.ebay.com/usr/ivtas4

[Victor]

I am adding this German seller to the list -- schaffrathnumis

https://www.ebay.com/usr/schaffrathnumis

I don't think that they are knowingly selling fakes, but they currently have a lot of poor cast coins/ fakes for sale. So many fakes, that even if it is a mistake, it is reckless and shows they probably do not care; but maybe they are merely clueless and usually sell modern coinage.

They also have a cast of a Paduan ( C CAESAR DICTATOR/ VENI VIDI VICI) , probably Giovanni Cavino (1500- 1570), which if it was an original strike would be collectible and worth some money, but this is a poor cast.


The last fake is hilarious. It is an impossible combination of Vetranio with a FEL TEMP reverse.     The galley coinage was never struck by Vetranio and this fake galley looks like it is attempting to copy a Western mintmark, while Vetranio only minted from two mints in the East- Siscia and Thessalonica.

[Victor]

this person claims this fake is "Part of my grandfathers collection."  Maybe he does not know it is fake, but he is also selling some dodgy looking artifacts, also from "grandfathers collection"

https://www.ebay.com/usr/treasuredetector

[Victor]

lots of suspicious looking coins and antiquities.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/aurelius1962

See the fake Otacilia Severa, with several other fakes from the same dies.

He also sells a few coins which he has attributed as reproductions; which means he is definitely getting some fakes and admits it...sometimes.

Sometimes he lists coins which are clearly fake, but he merely says "reproduction??"  see the fake Procopius.


next coin is a Lipanoff fake he sold, with the last picture what it looked like before the fake patina.


It is also interesting, that this person has Norway listed as his country, but when you win an auction, you get this message "Because of the new heavy prices in Norway for registered mail and tracking number mostly of my items are waiting on stock in Bulgaria, where I'm buying them from. In that reason your lot will be shipped from Bulgaria with registered mail and tracking number in secure reasons. If you have any problem with that please let me know and I will start cancel order procedure."

[Victor]

out of Cyprus   havaiome2012

https://www.ebay.com/usr/havaiome2012

[Roety]

how about this one,  looks a little to nice?
I could be wrong,  looking at his sold listing they all look excellent,  shiny (luster) with a little patina, but many are missing the little bumps around the edge
I think they are all very good looking casts.  I hope I'm wrong because people are paying 100s for them, one guy bought well over ten coins from the guy.

[Victor]

There is no such thing as too nice. Many ancient coins are in mint state...a few are even FDC ( French for Fleur de Coin-- the best of the best). If this coin was cast, it would not look so sharp. The best fakes are struck, but I don't see anything obviously suspicious about this coin. Of course, it is really hard to authenticate good fakes from a picture alone...really good fakes fool people in hand.

The most obvious problem with this seller is the worthless COA's he sells.

[Roety]

worthless COA ,  LOL   yup

[Victor]

just added sar.weiss-0    his old ID was    aurum-coins24

https://www.ebay.com/usr/sar.weiss-0

[Roety]

your link is missing the -0   
thanks

[Victor]

thanks...I fixed it.

[Victor]

a fake seller from Germany

https://www.ebay.com/usr/simotow