On this page, we list coin dealers who have stolen pictures, using our high qualiy coin photographs, to use in direct competition with us. This is dishonest, illegal, and unethical. Here we name and shame those dealers.
Copyright Notice Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.
Copyright Infringements Remedies Our suggested draft remedies for copyright abusers dependent on category - competitors, bloggers, pseudo-expert & advice sites acting as eBay & Google portals, eBay & other auction site sellers.
Coin Dealers
A wide range of coin dealers infringe our copyright by stealing our photographs.
These include British dealers, US, German, Belgian, Australian, Canadian, Chinese. Some of these dealers are undoubtedly small part-time one-man dealers, others are full time, professional dealers with numerous employees. It also includes at least one member each of the BNTA
and the LBMA
. Whichever category they belong to, there is no excuse to use our images without our consent. As they are using our pictures to compete directly or indirectly with us, we class these as among the worst type of copyright thieves. In many case, these dealers attempt to portray themselves are highly ethical, in other cases they say little about their own integrity or reputation, at least on their "About Us" web pages, perhaps because they have never thought it important, perhaps because they know they are dishonest.
We intend, in due course to serve legal notice on all of these, and possibly continue further legal action unless we receive appropriate responses, including in all cases an apology, an undertaking to desist permanently, and an appropriate amount of compensation, which is some cases could be substantial.
- Accent Rare Coins
- All Finance (UK) Ltd (allfin-ltd.com)
As we have given notice to this party of imminent legal action, we have temporarily disabled this link on legal advice. Watch this space.- Amazon (amazon.com)
- American Coin Guild (americancoinguild.com)
- APMEX (American Precious Metals Exchange) of Edmond Oklahoma
- Asset Strategies International Inc
- Austin Coins of Texas
- Awesome Coins
- Baird & Co of London (goldline.co.uk)
One of our closest competitors, and an LBMA member! - Best American Gold Coin (bestamericangoldcoin.com)
- Best Gold Sovereigns (bestgoldsovereigns.com)
- Bord, Malcolm, Gold Coin Exchange (goldcoinexchange.co.uk)
- Bramalls Gold Room Sheffield bramallsgoldroom.co.uk
- Bullioncoinsandbars.com
- Bullion Bargains (bullionbargains.us)
- Bullion.Com, Castello Cities Internet Network, Inc. (bullion.com)
"The Authority on Precious Metals" - Bullion Exchange, The (thebullionexchange.co.uk)
- Bullion Silver Gold (bullion-silver-gold.com)
- Bullion Trading LLC (bulliontradingllc.com)
- Buy Gold Sovereigns (buygoldsovereigns.com)
- Buy Your Coins (buyyourcoins.com)
- Carson Antiques UK (Steve Carson) on GoAntiques.com
- Centennial Precious Metals Inc of Denver, Colorado
- Center Coin (Centerville Coin & Jewelry Connection) (centercoin.com & coins4me.com)
- Chipman Coins of the USA
- Cloudfront (cloudfront.net)
- Coin Connection of Essex
- CoinQuest (coinquest.com)
- Coin-Rare.com Westminster Mint of Minneapolis, Minnesota, & Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Coins Dig (coinsdig.com)
- Coiny Coins (coinycoins.com)
- Delhi OLX (Rajesh Kumar) (delhi.olx.in)
- DGC Magazine (dgcmagazine.com)
- Dollar Daze (dollardaze.org)
- Domains Rush (theproof.co.uk)
- DM1966COLLECTABLES
- eBay in Conjunction with Myriad Members
- EC Plaza (ecplaza.net)
- Elm Investments (Western) Ltd & 4W Web Design
- Energise Web Design & Hoosting of New Zealand (energise.co.nz) or The Gold Man
- eu-agents.com (John Lynch's Bullion Merchants Ireland)
- Euro-Change of Germany
- Euroshine Limited
- E.WTC (ewtc.cn)
- Executive Bullion of Fort Myers, Florida, USA. (executivebullion.com)
- Finance & Credit Bank of Uzbekistan
- First Rung (firstrung.co.uk)
- Fondsdiscount (edelmetalle.fondsdiscount.de)
- Forex Trading HQ (forextradinghq.com)
- Fort Worth Coin
- Fox Valley Coins
- Freequencies (freequencies.wordpress.com)
- Full Gold Sovereign (fullgoldsovereign.com)
- Goldbarren und Silberbarren (goldbarren-silberbarren.de)
- Gold-Bullion.DE
- Gold Coin Exchange Malcolm Bord (goldcoinexchange.co.uk)
- Gold Coins 4 Sale (goldcoins4sale.co.uk)
- Gold Coins for Sale (goldcoinssale.net)
- Gold Company Temmy Wahyudi (temmywahyudi.com)
- The Golden Touch (thegoldentouch.info)
- Gold Coins Gain (goldcoinsgain.com) Aurum Advisors
- Gold Core (goldcore.com), Previously Gold & Silver Investments (gold.ie)
- Gold Coins Piston Ring (gold-coins.piston-ring.net)
- Golden Eagle Coins (goldeneaglecoin.com)
- Goldgeschenk (goldgeschenk.de)
- Gold Guinea (goldguinea.co.uk)
- Gold Investments of London
- Gold Information Network
- Gold Man, The (thegoldman.co.nz)
- Gold Panda (goldpanda.org.uk)
- Gold & Silver Investments Ltd of London (& Ireland) (www.goldassets.co.uk)
- Gold Safe (goldsafe.co.uk)
- Gold Silver Investments (goldsilverinvestments.com)
- Gold Stock Bull (goldstockbull.com)
- Gold Trader Asia (goldtraderasia.com)
- Goldline International Inc (goldline.com) of Santa Monica, California, USA
- Government Auctions UK (governmentauctionsuk.com)
- Gram Gold Bars Garland Choate (gramgoldbar.com)
- Hough Precious Metals, Michael Hough of (760) 217-5419 (San Diego, California) (houghpreciousmetals.com)
- House, The, Brussels, Belgium,
- Independence Coin Services
- Jack Hunt Coin Broker
- J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd bullioncoinsandbars.com - Gold Bullion Bars Page
- J&M Coin & Jewellery Ltd bullioncoinsandbars.com - Gold Coins Page
- Jewellery Discount Shop (jewellerydiscountdhop.co.uk)
- John Lynch's Bullion Merchants Ireland (eu-agents.com)
- Joseph Wealth Systems, Picassa, Zigmars.Rozentals (picasaweb.google.com)
- Kelley's Coins
- KJC Coins (kjc.com.au)
- Krugerrand Gold Coins (krugerrandgoldcoins.com)
- Lew Rockwell.com (lewrockwell.com)
- Liberty Silver (libertysilver.se)
- McTear's Auctioneers of Glasgow (mctears.co.uk)
- Malcolm Bord, Gold Coin Exchange (goldcoinexchange.co.uk)
- Marcello Caputo
- Mercado del Oro (Van Martin) of Cordoba Argentina
- Midas Resources of Burnsville, MN
- Midas Buys Gold, Midas Buys Coins, of Elk, North Carolina, USA. (midasbuysgold.com)
- Monedas De Oro (monedasdeoro.info)
- Money Energy (getmoneyenergy.com)
- Munthandel Krugerrand, of the Netherlands
- MyGoldSold.co.uk Laughably Stupid Claim to Pay 30% More for Gold than any UK Buyer
- New World Rarities (nwrarities.com)
- Oro 24 Carati (oro24carati.com)
- Oro y Finanzas (oroyfinanzas.com)
- Overstock (auctions.overstock.com)
- Panda USA
- Philip Zetler Jewellers
- Picasa, Zigmars.Rozentals, Joseph Wealth Systems (picasaweb.google.com)
- Precious Metals Investment Group (preciousmetalsinvestmentgroup.com)
- Precious Metals In Singapore (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BFbBqIi2zt4/SqcrKXzcCnI/AAAAAAAABx4/WqxhoasqN4w/s400/gold-bars-1-kilo.jpg)
- Quality Gold Bullion Online (qualitybullion.com)
- Rajesh Kumar (delhi.olx.in)
- Rashbre Central (http://rashbre2.blogspot.com/2007/04/half-sovereign-or-dragon-gets-it.html)
- Rocky Mountain Coin, of Denver, Colorado
- Rozentals, Zigmars, Joseph Wealth Systems (picasaweb.google.com)
- Royal Arany of Hungary, Royal Gold Center, Vedic Net Investment LLC., (royal-arany.hu)
- Royal Coin & Jewelry of Houston Texas (royalcoins.com)
- S. A Coin Shop of South Africa (sacoinshop.co.za)
- Save Gold of Westmont, Illinois (savegold.com)
- Schouweb Coins of Denmark
- Scrap Gold (scrapgold.org.uk)
- Shining International of Oregon (shiningint.com)
- Silver Trading Company silvertrading.net
- Sonika Jewellers(sonika.co.uk)
- Sovereign Coins (sovereigncoins.org.uk)
- Sovereign Gold Coins (sovereigngoldcoins.com)
- Spinelli International Company, Marina Chieti, Italia
- Sunsetmoon2020 (sunsetmoon2020.blog61.fc2.com)
- Tau & Engels (tau-engels.com)
- Thai Gold (usgoldbuyers)
- The House, Brussels, Belgium
- There Are No Sunglasses (therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com)
- Tradekey.com
- Tulving (tulving.com)
- Twin City Gold (twin-city-gold.com) a.k.a. estatejewelry66 on eBay
- UK Bullion Ltd (ukgoldbullion.co.uk)
- US Free Ads (usfreeads.com)
- US Gold Buyers (usgoldbuyers.com)
- USA Gold of Denver, Colorado
- US Bullion Exchange
- Varolmak (finance.varolmak.com)
- Wahyudi, Temmy. Gold Company (temmywahyudi.com)
- Westminster Mint of Minneapolis, Minnesota, & Madison, Wisconsin, USA . (coin-rare.com), (& westminstermint.blogspot.com)
- Wholesale Investment of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. (wholesaleinvestment.com)
- Wiki Coins (wikicoins.com)
- World All Bullion (worldallbullion.com)
- World Mint Coins (worldmintcoins.com)
- ZAR Coins - About South Africa
- Zlate Mince of the Czech Republic
- 2 Lazy 2 Boot (2lazy2boot.com) & Cats Protection
Legal Action We intend to take legal action against any and all of these, but international lawyers and legal action tend to be quite expensive, although we would obviously seek to recover costs and damages from the guilty parties. Meanwhile we think that giving the individuals, companies and websites some free publicity is in the public interest, and also quicker, cheaper, and possibly more effective than litigation. There are now almost 200 on our list. these include a few duplicates where the companies use different names, or the name of their website is different from the company. As the cost of getting a copyright infringement case to court is likely to exceed £100,000 per case, we would need to budget £20 million for legal fees if we were to proceed with legal action against all the above at the same time.
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