Re: Ebay artefact selling by fraudster

Doug Weller wrote:  ulj5r1lmie2ofg1mdrorgp0p7mo5m5a38k@xxxxxxx,

theroyalsocietyofbritishexploration has been selling what he claims
to be a hoard of coins from the Romano-British Wroxeter site -
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BAGS-OF-1000-ROMAN-COINS-198-250AD_W0QQitemZ8367246199QQcategoryZ4734QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The claim is that the coins are being sold by"The Royal Society of
British Exploration est 1781 A museum founded by The Earl of Oxbridge"

There is no such Royal Society, no such museum, no Earl of Oxbridge.
There are several pages of listings on Google for this seller, he's
obviously committing fraud in a big way.

If the hoard is real (which I doubt given everything else), he's
breaking the law by trying to sell an unreported hoard.

Can anything be done about this?
He has also been dealing as
the*metal*detectorist  29-Sep-05  28-Nov-05
canterburycoins  04-Aug-05  29-Sep-05
4598jason  23-Feb-05  04-Aug-05

I wonder how long this ID will last. 

For Wroxter see:
http://www.roman-britain.org/places/viroconium.htm

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