Antique Archaeologist of Scottburgh, stole our 1965 Churchill Commemorative Crown photograph to use on bidorbuy.co.za, without our permission, to try to sell his own. Totally dishonest. Image theft is endemic on auction sites, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
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eBay Copyright Thieves
Many auction site vendors use our coin photographs to sell inferior quality coins on there. These members are dishonest and should be avoided.
We believe auction sites profit from IP rights infringements (copyright theft), and does so knowingly, only removing infringing items reluctantly, if at all.
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. It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar item, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers. 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.
Sample Listing
Churchill Commemorative Crown
Following the death of the great man, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, in 1965, a commemorative crown was issued in his honour and memory. 1874 – 1965
With the issue of the 1965 Commemorative crown, he became the first commoner to be portrayed on a British coin.
Obverse:
The first (young) portrait of the Queen facing right, designed by Mary Gillick.
ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F D
1965
Reverse: A sombre-looking portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, in a siren suit.
We are sure that Churchill himself would have been the first to admit that he was not pretty, his portrait on this crown is not exactly flattering. It is in quite low relief, and we believe it to be one of the least attractive British coins ever issued.
Quite what Churchill would have made of our comments, we will never know, but this was a very popular coin issue at the time, and over 9 million were issued!
CHURCHILL
Edge
The edge is milled
Specifications
All versions:-
Denomination (face value) Five Shillings
Diameter 38.61mm
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- Seller ID:
- Antique Archaeologist
- Item Number:
- 12238183
- Date:
- Ongoing
- Description:
- Aumy 1965 CHURCHILL CROWN
- Price:
- R25.00 Approx. 29 pence.
The seller was asking for a buy it now price of R25.00.
Even before 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.
