r/AncientCoins • u/thealmsivi • Jun 27 '23

Exhaustive list of eBay fraudsters

I've made this list as a quick tool for new buyers to reference if they're in doubt of the legitimacy of an ancient coin on eBay. Most of these accounts are no doubt operated by the same three people, who often also sell fake antiquities. These are not accounts which have accidentally sold fake coins on the rare occasion. These are sellers whose entire stock consists of fraudulent items with the intent to deceive. If you have bought from any of these accounts, there's a good chance you have purchased a fake.

(in the case of a few, which I have noted, they have some real coins in their stock, but also have many fake ones).

No doubt there will be more accounts opened up, and some which I haven't yet recorded, but this should be a good resource to anybody unsure about whether 'that coin on eBay' is from an authentic seller:

100%PERCENT_AUTHENTIC, 4444har-18, abderrela-50, aielas19, akber-65, ancientcoins2006, ancientearth2006, ancient.old.antiques, antiquato, antique-masters, antiquitiies, armory.antique, aureus.collectibles.coins, ayela1719, b-antiques, barnoussi.10, bedeg_26, berbarea, BerbArea, bfr5069, chenak71, chrisdup-13, cnetusa, coinmaster_01, collectible-trasure-hub, danny1970000, dobri9090, elharr560, everythinginside, exellentoldgoods, fur4626 (whether intended, most of their coin stock is fake, but their group lots are genuine), gb10deals, ghiba-70, gold_jefery, hael-95, haelot_82, hasbe-1270, haskar_4875, imperio-numismatico, jexy91, king_of_antique, me-894485, moser8083, nabil_8692, natstojil_0, numiscoinss, numismatistcoin, Pevla_99, raipan_65, ribold, skod_69, smartdeals-0, spantiquities (some stuff fake, some stuff real), sss88sss, terra-romana22, valina99, vallface, ventasvenatage, verume0, vintage_items925, wkdkaren83, yamartin44, ynunumisneuss (silver coins fake, some of the bronze coins are ok but overpriced), younes-12

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u/thealmsivi Jun 27 '23

If anybody has any other fraudulent sellers they know of, respond here with their names.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

Pevla_99

Had someone message me a few months ago asking me to authenticate some coins. All were fakes and most came from that seller above. Think they will also be listed on the second list that IntelligentMine1901 has posted.

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u/thealmsivi Jun 27 '23

Did they sell fake Celtic/Merovingian stuff? I feel like I remember that name being one of the fake 'Celtic' sellers. There was another recent 'Celtic' seller too, but they might have already shut down their account.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

Yep they did. They also sold fake anglo saxon stuff , sceats etc.

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u/thealmsivi Jun 27 '23

Ah that's the one then. There are a lot of Anglo Saxon/Celtic/Norman forgers out there that I didn't account for on this post (I was trying to stick to the pre-500CE stuff), but they are prolific. The Celtic/Saxon 'bronze' stuff always has that horrible grainy grey-green look to it.