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Seller ID	Item Number	Date	Description	Price
davebirchmire	150372098841	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1898)	$325
davebirchmire	150372099267	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1898)	$325
davebirchmire	150372099627	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1909)	$325
davebirchmire	150372099627	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1915)	$325
davebirchmire	150372100483	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1927)	$325
davebirchmire	150372100662	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1927)	$325
davebirchmire	150372100872	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1922)	$325
davebirchmire	150372101188	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1927)	$325
davebirchmire	150372101478	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1930)	$325
davebirchmire	150372101708	11th Sep 2009	Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1930)	$325

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Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin (1898)
Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin DescriptionThe Swiss 20 Franc Vreneli gold coin is one of the world's classic gold coins and quite popular among investors. Switzerland, neutral since its creation by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, has long been synonymous with stability and fiscal strength due to its practice of backing its currency with large quantities of gold.
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE COIN YOU ARE BIDDING ON WAS MINTED IN 1898 I COULD NOT GET A GOOD PICTURE THERFOR (sic) I USED A OLD PIC.
Design of the Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin
The obverse of this Swiss 20 Franc gold coin, considered by some as the loveliest of all Swiss coin designs, features a bust of a Vreneli, the charming 'Swiss Miss' of Swiss lore. With braided hair, she wears a garland of flowers and appears against the background of the Swiss Alps. Above her head appears the word 'HELVETIA', which is why this rare coin is also referred to as a Helvetia.
Detailed Information for the 20 Swiss 20 Franc Gold Coin
Gross Weight: 6.4516g Gold Content: 0.1867 troy oz.
Composition: 90% gold
Coin Diameter: 21mm
Dates: 1896* 1897-1916; 1922; 1925-27; 1930; 1935; 1945-47; 1949 * Minting of this coin in 1896 has been reported, but not confirmed.
Mint: Bern

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 the obverse and reverse of a 1898 Swiss Gold 20 Francs, he used them to sell his own coins on eBay.
He did not tell buyers it was not the same coin as he was hawking, but what if he doesn't even own any gold coins?
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 £620 for his or her coin.
He or she would probably have got more by selling to us when eBay's new 10% selling fees are taken into account, even ignoring PayPal fees, or spending it, although many eBay buyers do overpay for gold bullion, compared with our own prices for similar or better gold bullion bars.
Similarly, buyers may be better off dealing direct with a proper, well-established, dealer, such as us, and we could offer a better selection!

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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