Bogus "Silver" on Ebay

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Not a crusader but this one has me really riled up.
Several sellers are falsely claiming that the Zambia Africa Wildlife Collection are .999 silver.
They are not. These are commemoratives made by some company in Spain. The company labels them as bano plata or silver plated, which they are. The problem is that these are the right size and weight to easily pass as either .925 or .999.
Only the alert are going to see that they are too thick (not by much) and will not pass a specific gravity test.
Even though I have pointed this out to E-bay nothing has been done....
SO....I am asking that the community inundate E-bay with complaints. There is a section in customer service where suspected fraud can be reported.
If we do not do it, no one will!
The "some company" is Ceca de Montesclaros

In the Numista Catalog, they're in the *Token* section. For example: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces69785.html
HoH
I don't trust any bullion coins on eBay at all.

Density test would provide the proof if it is .999 silver.
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It's not only the Zambia Wildlife collection, there is a similar one from the DRC (Congo) "Endangered Wildlife Series". These silver plated tokens are sold by series of a dozen different animals on various Russian web platforms. Many (the less dishonest) mention: "Use: souvenir art &collectible, business gift holiday decoration gift". Delivered in plastic capsules as if they were genuine coins, these tokens are sold for a multiple of their price in the DRC and later sold on e-bay for the price of bullion issues. All such token issues have a legend in English, whereas the early genuine silver predecessors had their legend in French, still used in administration.

These issues were moved to the token section on Numista (tokens in DRC francs) after I exposed them as fraudulent silver coins.
Gwyde

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