Flood of Fake Indian Cents on eBay

sc999 · May 7, 2026 11:41AM

Heads up: new eBay seller appears to be flooding the market with fake key-date Indian Head and Wheat cents.

Seller is located in Pottsville, PA and, come to find, has a criminal record. Started listing heavily within the last couple weeks. I bought several Indian cents to verify and the coins I received are absolutely fake.

Report if you can.

Seller link:
https://ebay.com/usr/jsad92

braddick · May 7, 2026 12:13PM

This single negative feedback should have warned others (sadly, it apparently did not):

s***d (2014)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
WARNING: DO NOT BUY COINS FROM THIS SELLER. THEY ARE ALL FAKE. PURCHASED MULTIPLE INDIAN CENTS AND ALL ARE COUNTERFEIT. IF YOU BOUGHT FROM THIS SELLER, THE COIN YOU RECEIVED IS NOT GENUINE.

johnny9434 · May 7, 2026 12:16PM

What a shame to see stuff like that...

mr1931S · May 7, 2026 12:34PM

This single negative feedback should have warned others (sadly, it apparently did not.

There is widespread inability to read with understanding at work in this country... And then there is ebay's spectacular AI counterfeit detection fail. Sad.

NEVER buy an uncertified (by PCGS, NGC, ANACS, ICG, possibly a few others) key date coin in ANY series from a seller on ebay...UNLESS...your past experience with seller indicates that you can buy raw key date coin with high confidence that it is genuine.

Bikergeek · May 7, 2026 12:36PM

I have an app in my website that allows me (OR anyone else - but currently just me!) to flag sellers of bad material like this. I just flagged jsad92 and referenced this post. https://groovycoins.com/cautionlist-view

The people on that list will invoke a red FLAGGED box if you browse to ANY of their items on eBay as long as you also have my plugin loaded to your brower. The link above tells you how to get the plugins for Firefox, Edge, and Chrome. (Sorry, I don't do Apple).

The flag looks like this:

MFeld · May 7, 2026 1:04PM

In the past hour, I reported multiple completed and current listings from this seller. So far, and to my great surprise, eBay had removed six items, including this one:

Thanks again for reporting the problematic content you found.

What happened:
We looked into your report and removed the content. It may take up to 24 hours for it to reflect on the site. This determination was made by a customer service agent.

We let the content uploader know about this decision and the action taken. They may have the option to fix the content to make it visible again on site. They can also appeal our decision, and we'll review the case again and may reverse the original decision and action taken.

If you reported content that isn’t included in the below reference ID, we’ll send a separate email once we’ve made a decision.

Your reference ID: 2-105169913937

Here are the listings you reported that have been removed:
Item: 318165897455 1909-S VDBLincoln Wheat Small Cent Bronze Circulated Coin Denver Mint

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sc999 · May 7, 2026 1:23PM

@braddick said:
This single negative feedback should have warned others (sadly, it apparently did not):

This feedback is the most recent. He's already sold over 35 coins like this since late April. Sad for all those buyers that got scammed before this.

sc999 · May 7, 2026 1:26PM

@MFeld said:
In the past hour, I reported multiple completed and current listings from this seller. So far, and to my great surprise, eBay had removed six items, including this one:

Well done. It's a miracle eBay actually removed a fraudulent listing. It'd be awesome if those past buyers received reimbursement.

MFeld · May 7, 2026 1:39PM

@sc999 said:

@MFeld said:
In the past hour, I reported multiple completed and current listings from this seller. So far, and to my great surprise, eBay had removed six items, including this one:

Well done. It's a miracle eBay actually removed a fraudulent listing. It'd be awesome if those past buyers received reimbursement.

Thank you and thank you for this thread. Prior to today, I’d had extremely poor results in my reporting, over a period of several months. I’m curious as to why things were different today.

IkesT · May 8, 2026 9:42PM

@MFeld said:

@sc999 said:

@MFeld said:
In the past hour, I reported multiple completed and current listings from this seller. So far, and to my great surprise, eBay had removed six items, including this one:

Well done. It's a miracle eBay actually removed a fraudulent listing. It'd be awesome if those past buyers received reimbursement.

Thank you and thank you for this thread. Prior to today, I’d had extremely poor results in my reporting, over a period of several months. I’m curious as to why things were different today.

I've had similar experiences reporting on eBay recently; there appears to be no rhyme or reason to it.

PerryHall · May 9, 2026 1:19AM

@MFeld said:

@sc999 said:

@MFeld said:
In the past hour, I reported multiple completed and current listings from this seller. So far, and to my great surprise, eBay had removed six items, including this one:

Well done. It's a miracle eBay actually removed a fraudulent listing. It'd be awesome if those past buyers received reimbursement.

Thank you and thank you for this thread. Prior to today, I’d had extremely poor results in my reporting, over a period of several months. I’m curious as to why things were different today.

Maybe eBay is getting tired of reimbursing the victims of this scammer and it's hurting their bottom line.

johnny9434 · May 9, 2026 2:41AM

@PerryHall said:

@MFeld said:

@sc999 said:

@MFeld said:
In the past hour, I reported multiple completed and current listings from this seller. So far, and to my great surprise, eBay had removed six items, including this one:

Well done. It's a miracle eBay actually removed a fraudulent listing. It'd be awesome if those past buyers received reimbursement.

Thank you and thank you for this thread. Prior to today, I’d had extremely poor results in my reporting, over a period of several months. I’m curious as to why things were different today.

Maybe eBay is getting tired of reimbursing the victims of this scammer and it's hurting their bottom line.

Its gotta at least slow down some where, agreed 👍

Old_Collector · May 9, 2026 10:42AM

@MFeld said:

@sc999 said:

@MFeld said:
In the past hour, I reported multiple completed and current listings from this seller. So far, and to my great surprise, eBay had removed six items, including this one:

Well done. It's a miracle eBay actually removed a fraudulent listing. It'd be awesome if those past buyers received reimbursement.

Thank you and thank you for this thread. Prior to today, I’d had extremely poor results in my reporting, over a period of several months. I’m curious as to why things were different today.

Yeah, I keep getting the AI "the listing is fine" response. One was so simple, it was advertised as a PCGS graded coin, but the picture was of a body bagged coin that was clearly labeled DO NOT HOLDER and NOT GENUINE.

I just shook my head and moved on. Every single one that I report is obviously counterfeit to a casual observer.

Agreed, this is a useful thread, hopefully it will protect someone by coming up in a Google search by a newbie.

MrScience · May 9, 2026 11:02AM

Nice work, all! The seller has been NARU'd....

sc999 · May 21, 2026 12:57PM

Seller was suspended, but somehow reinstated and back with more fakes:

Flood of Fake Indian Cents on eBay

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