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We might have another success! Hope I'm not being premature but he's just messaged me after I replied again and told him despite the novelty thing he was still being deceptive, and he says he will pull the coins. By his English he doesn't seem to have been educated here!

you might have seen this on the aquisition of the week thread, beautiful 1937 proof crown, i love it, have now worked out what i'm going to collect, has to be the early cameo looking proofs, did they have the cameo look on any George V ? i have 2 of these now, some proofs seem frosted and others dont,

Not something i normally buy although i have been collecting them, i think they are worth the money because they are packaged fantastically in the clear perspex box thing, anyway saw this come up on ebay and had a bit of a spur of the moment bid winning it for £71 inc postage, a little over face value, i spose the 68 grade knocked it a bit, to be honest i can't see anything with the naked eye and have had a good look. you would think something new and not touched by hand would get a 70 or could be the dies have gone a bit funny as the coin is numbered early 29,000's, anyway, for little over the £60 when bought form the mint and it came with box etc i think its not a bad deal,

could some of the appearance of frosting be due to toning on these coins, because i have another 37 with frosted bust and the mirrored fields have gone like your 27 ? ? nice coins btw, still have not got the 27 crown, cant justify the money when so many are on sale if you get what i mean

My own examples: 1927 proof crown with no frosting 1935 RE crown with frosting (but the mirrored surfaces have toned making this less obvious)

Unfortunately it's self-perpetuating - a gullible buyer gets drawn in, ripped off then when he realizes his mistake - what does he do but put it back on eBay as the "genuine article" purely to recoup his losses and in doing so exacerbates the whole problem. Such is the vulnerability of a selling platform such as eBay.

Definitely dodgy - I've sent the seller a message and reported it.

Surely mass reporting is called for then, otherwise a couple of eager novices may bid each other up to silly money.

I hope these pics come out clearer. BADGER