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Sample Listing

2 Pound coin Dove of Peace
1995 TWO POUND COMMEMORATIVE COIN - THE DOVE OF PEACE
A most unusual coin in that it bears the date only on the edge. It commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The coin is in good condition.
REVERSE: SHOWS A IMAGE OF A DOVE THE SYMBOL OF PEACE.
OBVERSE: QUEEN ELIZABETH II THIRD PORTRAIT.
EDGE INSCRIPTION:1945 IN PEACE GOODWILL 1995

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 our images of a 1995 Gold 2 Pound Coin, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that his coin might not be in the same near mint condition as in our photographs. The coin in our photograph is a gold proof coin, his is almost certainly a brass circulation version. This is almost certainly illegal in the UK under the Trade Description Act, although it appears to happen on a daily basis on eBay.
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 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.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £0.99 for his coin,

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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  goldsovereigns.co.uk
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  www.9carat.co.uk