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FAKE LIBERTAD
eBay item number:306695744466THE ITEM LISTED IS A FAKE AND IS LISTED AS COMING FROM THE MEXICAN MINT, AS IS NOT. IT DOES NOT HAVE THE MINT MARK AND IS THUS A COUNTERFIT AND A FAKE. TO THE UNKNOWING EYE, ONE IS BUYING A FAKE COIN, AND IT IS WORTHLESS AS A NUMISMANTIC ITEM. IT IS AN INFREIGNMENT ON THE TRADEMARK OF BANCO DE MEXICO AND THE MEXICAN MINT. REMOVE IMMEDIATELY.
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gosimus
Mentor9 months ago@mexicancoinbroker
< item number: 306695744466 . . . DOES NOT HAVE THE MINT MARK AND IS THUS A COUNTERFIT AND A FAKE >
Does the picture in the listing https://www.ebay.com/itm/306695744466 show a mint mark? If it does, I couldn't find it. The picture looks real to me . . . of course, the seller could post a picture of a real one and then send something different, but I don't think that happened. The seller has good, recent feedback as a seller, and well, doggonit, the avatar looks like an honest man. Is it possible that the round could have been manufactured without a mint mark? In the US, coins have a letter indicating at which mint they were stamped – example D for Denver, S for San Francisco, etc. – but the P for the Philadelphia mint is sometimes absent, in fact I've never seen one with a P.
mexicancoinbroker
OP9 months agoFIND A REAL 1OZ LIBERTAD LISTED BY APMEX. THE TRUE MINT MARK IS FEATURED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ANGEL. IT IS NOT THERE ON THE FAKE.
mexicancoinbroker
OP9 months agoFIND A REAL 1OZ LIBERTAD LISTED BY APMEX. THE TRUE MINT MARK IS FEATURED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ANGEL. IT IS NOT THERE ON THE FAKE.
eburtonlab
Mentor9 months ago@mexicancoinbroker
Counterfeit items are not allowed to be listed on eBay at all. No one is authorized to sell counterfeit items. That fact alone does not stop some people from trying to sell them, however.
The problem is that unscrupulous or uninformed sellers can list genuine items and then deliver counterfeit items.
It is not always possible to look at a listing and know in advance exactly what, if anything, the seller intends to deliver. For one thing, a scammer can simply copy a listing from a genuine seller, using a genuine photo of a genuine item.
Except for a few specific categories of items that go through authentication, eBay never sees what the seller ships or the what the buyer receives, so there is nothing for eBay to check unless someone complains about what was received by invoking eBay's money back guarantee.
Sellers are responsible for the descriptions they provide, and buyers should not assume that eBay screens the listings in advance.
As long as counterfeits exist and there are folks trying to sell them, buyers will still have to be on the lookout for them, and avoid deals that are obviously too-good-to-be-true, whether they are being sold by accounts registered overseas or by domestic sellers wittingly or unwittingly buying counterfeits from overseas to sell here.
Buyers that doubt their ability to distinguish a genuine article from a counterfeit one should only consider purchasing from trustworthy sellers that have an established reputation for delivering exactly what was described, and should avoid deals that are too-good-to-be-true, or deals that are offered by inexperienced sellers that might disappear soon after the transaction is made, or else be prepared to get items authenticated by trusted sources within thirty days to be able to take advantage of eBay's money back guarantee.