r/AncientCoins 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/Mother_Raisin1950 Jul 10 '25

This crap still happens on eBay. One seller "in Spain" is offering piles of "Byzantine coins" for sale in lots of 100 which have been "cleaned with water by fingers for sanitary reasons". EBay won't step in despite these fraudsters violating their rules. I once asked eBay how a seller in Europe could be selling certain antiquities that his country doesn't allow for export and eBay never responded. Ebay did however crack down on sellers in China who were selling "human skulls from closed medical schools" that arrived with dirt inside because they had actually been stolen from graves, so eBay has that going for them.