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South African Krugerrand
Item number 170346979213
The Krugerrand is 32.6 mm in diameter and 2.74 mm thick.Gold South African Krugerrands The Krugerrand's actual weight is 1.0909 troy ounces (33.93 g). It is minted from gold alloy that is 91.67% pure (22 karats), so the coin contains one troy ounce (31.1035 g) of pure gold. The remaining 8.33% of the coin's weight (2.826 g) is copper, which gives the Krugerrand a more orange appearance than silver-alloyed gold coins. Gold alloy coins are harder and more durable, so they can resist scratches and dents.
The Krugerrand is so named because the obverse bears the face of Boer statesman Paul Kruger, four-term president of the old South African Republic. The reverse depicts a springbok, one of the national symbols of South Africa. The image was designed by Coert Steynberg, and was previously used on the reverse of the earlier South African five shilling coin. The name "South Africa" and the gold content are inscribed in both Afrikaans and English.

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin images on the internet. We strongly object when lazy and dishonest people decide to use them without a by your leave or thanks, doing so in competition with us.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
This particular eBay seller not only stole one of images of an 2003 proof gold Krugerrand, he used it in a listing for a non-proof Krugerrand. It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.

It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar coin, and have the intention to defraud potential buyers.
The vendor is not only cheating us by stealing our copyright images, she is fraudulently or ignorantly misleading and deceiving all potential buyers. Gaining pecuniary advantage by deception is the definition of fraud.
He purports to some level of expertise, by also stealing or copying some quite detailed facts and information about Krugerrands, but omits to say that he is dishonest enough to steal other people's hard work. It is always good practice to quote your source when relying on the existing work of others.

Price
Winning bid: £600.00

What's Worse?

eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity
We reported this example of copyright abuse on 26th Jun 2009, using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and eBay have, not for the first time, chosen to ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity.
Although the item listing itself appears to have been removed, copied of our original image remain on eBay's site in various places.

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