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Collecting Gold Sovereigns and Avoiding Fakes - Part 1
by lapidary2( 860)
Before you read this guide, please go straight to my fourth guide to read about the thwarted crook. With the increase in gold prices, you see more and more sovereigns being sold on eBay and that also means...
Tags: Sovereign | Gold | Chinese | Fake
853 of 859 people found this guide helpful
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Fake Chinese Sellers stealing others' listings UPDATED
by lapidary2( 860)
Dangerous Chinese "Sellers" One eBayer has already written a note about these but last night there was a spate of these crooks on eBay, mainly selling coins, totalling more than 100 items. Experienced buyers...
Tags: Coins | Gold | Sovereign | British | United States
629 of 645 people found this guide helpful
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Collecting Gold Sovereigns and Avoiding Fakes - Part 2
by lapidary2( 860)
I hope you have arrived here after reading the first part of this article. In this part, I will be showing you some more examples of the dubious and the downright ugly that at some time have been passed off as...
Tags: Sovereign | Gold | Fake
263 of 264 people found this guide helpful
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Collecting Gold Sovereigns and Avoiding Fakes - Part 3
by lapidary2( 860)
I hope you have arrived here after reading the first two of my guides. This is my first update of the new year - 18th January 2007 and in this part I will continue with my earlier theme and will be showing you...
Tags: Sovereign | Gold | Fake
220 of 222 people found this guide helpful
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Fake Coins - Buy These at your Peril
by lapidary2( 860)
I have written a number of guides to help collectors and have taken the trouble to tell you able fake coins and why they are fake. The purpose of this guide is to provide you with a growing list of the horrors...
Tags: Coins | Fakes
98 of 102 people found this guide helpful
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Collecting Gold Sovereigns and Avoiding Fakes - Part 5
by lapidary2( 860)
Gold Coins Struck with 21 in the Field or Stamped 21 - Blame Saudi Arabia Things have been relatively quiet lately but here is a subject I have not discussed so far but this is another general area where you...
Tags: Sovereign | Fake | Gold | Coins | Coin
67 of 69 people found this guide helpful
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Pattern Coins - Are They Rubbish?
by lapidary2( 860)
I normally write about fakes but there is currently a spate of so-called patterns being sold on eBay and these pieces of nonsense are being described as rare. I should have hoped that people would do their...
Tags: Pattern | Gold | Sovereign | Coins
57 of 59 people found this guide helpful
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Collecting Gold Sovereigns and Avoiding Fakes - Part 6
by lapidary2( 860)
Beware of General or Antique Dealers - Yet Again I have mentioned before that dealers or antique dealers rarely have a real grasp of coinage and a particularly irritating idiot from the USA typifies the breed....
Tags: Sovereign | Fake | Gold | Coins | Coin
50 of 52 people found this guide helpful
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