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Heads up: those 'Roman' coins being sold on eBay from a 'secret British dig' are fakes
I bought one out of curiosity after seeing the seller had 500+ sales. Paid $45 for a 'denarius of Marcus Aurelius.' The patina flaked off when I dropped it on my kitchen counter. Underneath it was just brass. I took it to a local archaeologist in Tucson who said the lettering was wrong and the weight was off by 2 grams. The seller's account vanished a week later. Anyone else run into these bulk lots with the same shiny surfaces?
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felix_bailey458d ago
Flush that patina test thing right out of your head for a second. What gets me is why a seller with that many sales would vanish over one $45 coin instead of just issuing a refund and moving on. The real story here might be that they were running a bulk operation on multiple platforms, not just eBay, and your complaint was the first domino. Bet the archaeologist you saw could spot the fake from a mile away, but the real trick is mapping how those fakes move from China to a "secret British dig" listing in under two weeks. Sounds like someone has a cozy supply chain going and your drop just exposed a leak in their pipeline.
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james6728d ago
That 500+ sales count is exactly how they build trust before pulling the rug, I've seen the same pattern with fake tile lots on Facebook Marketplace where guys move product for months then ghost overnight. @felix_bailey45 is dead right that your drop probably exposed a bigger pipeline since those bulk Chinese fakes hit US listings within two weeks easy.
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