marine77marina in eBay Copyright Theft
marine77marina of London, United Kingdom, stole our 1892 Austrian 20 Francs 8 Florins Restrike Obverse & Reverse Photographs to sell his own coin on eBay, without our permission, and failed to mention the coin in the photograph was not the one he owned, if any. Totally dishonest.
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.

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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 31, with 100% positive, according to eBay.

eBay Copyright Thieves
Many eBay vendors use our coin photographs to sell inferior quality coins on eBay. These eBay members are dishonest and should be avoided.
We believe eBay profits from IP rights infringements (copyright theft), and does so knowingly, only removing infringing items reluctantly, if at all.

Sample Listing

Austrian gold coin
1892 Austrian 20 Francs 8 Florins
All 1892 dated Austrian gold 20 francs 8 florins are Austrian Mint official restrikes, issued partially as commemoratives, and partly as a gold bullion coin.
All other dates are considered normal, and would have been struck during, or shortly after, the year which they display.
The dual denomination 20 francs 8 florins is one of the many varied denominations of gold coin which Austria has produced in its long history. Between 1870 and 1892 Austria produced two different coin types, each of which carried face values in two different monetary systems, this is because these coins were "trade coinage" intended for international use as bullion coins. These types were the 20 francs / 8 florins which we feature on this page, and its sibling the 10 francs / 4 florins.

20 Francs 8 Florins These were issued between 1870 and 1891, but with official restrikes dated 1892 being issued indefinitely. All the pre 1892 issues tend therefore to be of more interest to collectors, although there is nothing wrong with finding space for the 1892 restrikes in any collection.

Obverse
The laureate head, facing right, of Emperor Franz Joseph I
FRANCISCUS IOSEPHUS I D G IMPERATOR ET REX

Reverse
The arms of Austria superimposed upon a crowned double-headed Imperial eagle.
IMPERIUM AUSTRIACUM
8 FL   20 Fr
1892

Edge
The edge has an incuse inscription:-
VIRIBUS UNITIS

Technical Specifications

Diameter	Weight	Fineness	Gold Content
21.1	6.4516	.900	.1867

Notes on Table
Diameter = Diameter in millimetres.
Weight = Gross weight in grams.
Fineness = purity of gold alloy.
Gold Content = Actual gold content in troy ounces.

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin and gold bar 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.
It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar bar, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
The vendor is not only cheating us by stealing our copyright images, he is fraudulently or ignorantly misleading and deceiving all potential buyers. Gaining pecuniary advantage by deception is the definition of fraud.
The title he or she lazily chose, "Austrian gold coin" was remarkably uninformative. The text lifted from our web page almost made up for it.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £250. for this item.
Even without after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the seller would almost certainly have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.

eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity
We will be reporting this example of copyright abuse using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and wait to see if they chose to action or ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity if they fail to take down the offending material promptly.

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