Gene & Bob; Here is a portion of just one of the emails I've received that prompted me to withdraw the error token. If anyone still wants it at Andy's cancelled bid, knowing what I've been told ... they are welcome to it.
"Archie,
As you know, there are many misrepresentations on ebay, and I'm concerned
that your item most likely is one of them. I hesitate getting into
semantics, but I claim your item is a phoney, an intentional, manufactured
"error" made to fool the innocent, unknowing collector. I have seen hundreds
of these trinkets, most for sale at low prices.
Private mints making gaming tokens are usually small operations, with little
or no controls (including quality controls). It is my contention that spare
dies that were never intended for legitimate manufaacture (and never approved
by the Gaming Control Board) were used to stamp out a large number of these
items Presses in these small operations are usuallly hand-fed and it is a
simple matter to make such intentional "errors."
Suppose Dave W. (or anyone else) made some odd-ball chips and passed them off
as educational or an "instructional tool" or examples of promotional chips,
but at one-or-more buyers down the line, that attribution is lost or other
descriptions are used. Would you view this as a problem? I would. In the
Coin World this would certainly be a problem.
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