Important: If you supply products for sale on Amazon, you must comply with all
federal, state, and local laws and Amazon policies applicable to those products and product
listings.
Without limiting the foregoing, if you qualify as a dealer of precious metals, precious
stones or jewels, you must comply with 31 C.F.R. Part 1027 and other laws and regulations
applicable to you and will, upon Amazon’s request, provide copies of your anti-money
laundering program to Amazon.
Items considered exonumia, including but not limited to medals, medallions,
challenge coins, and commemorative coins not primarily made of a precious metal are exempt
from this policy.
You are required to obtain approval from Amazon before listing in the Collectible Coins
category. For more information, see this seller Help page: Collectible
Coins.
Examples of Permitted Listings
-
Collectible Coins
-
Monetized Bullion: Coins or other forms of
money manufactured of gold, silver, or other precious metal and used now or hereafter used
as a medium of exchange under the laws of a U.S. state, the United States, or any foreign
nation. The medium of exchange must have had a legal status equivalent to legal tender
that include relevant information known about the items:
-
Numismatic preservation
-
Country of circulation of a coin
-
Clear image of the item
-
Condition
-
Grader and Grade
-
Date of issue
-
Metal composition
-
Purity of the metal if the item is
monetized bullion
-
Restrikes produced or authorized by the
issuing government
-
Collectible coins or monetized bullion that are
reproductions, replicas, or copies and satisfy the following conditions as well as comply
with the Counterfeit Deterrence Act of 1992:
-
Marked as such on the item
-
Contain a clear image of the mark
-
State that the item is a reproduction,
replica, or copy in the title and the description
Examples of Prohibited Listings
The following are never permitted for sale on Amazon:
-
Items considered legal tender that have been
altered outside of numismatic preservation. This includes holograms, overlays, cladding,
plating, or colorizing
-
Paper money, including uncut sheets, bank
notes, money orders, bricks, and certificates
-
Imitation currency, including toy/play money
and prop money, that is not plainly and permanently marked "COPY" in the English
language including:
-
Coins
-
Token
-
Paper money
-
Commemorative medals
-
Rounds made primarily of precious metal
-
"Unsearched" bags, rolls, tubes, jars, or
hoards where the buyers cannot identify clearly the items they will receive
-
Counterfeit coins and paper money such as
bank notes, bonds, money orders, silver certificates, and gold certificates
-
Stocks and securities
-
Equipment designed to create counterfeit
items
-
Cash or cash equivalent instruments,
including money orders, traveler's checks, stored value products like retail or open
loop gift cards or electronic stored-value redemption codes (except for retail gift
cards listed by pre-approved sellers)
-
Gift cards, including:
-
Gift cards, except retail gift cards
listed by pre-approved sellers
-
Retail gift cards that exceed $2,000 in
value
-
Non-monetized bullion (precious metal which
has been smelted or refined and has a value dependent primarily upon its precious metal
content and not upon its form)
-
State or federal assistance benefits, such
as:
-
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program
for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) benefits, including supplemental foods (such
as infant formula), cash-value vouchers, and food instruments (such as vouchers,
checks, electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards, and coupons)
-
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamp Program) benefits and SNAP EBT cards
Additional Useful Information
Related Amazon Help Pages
Last updated 10/01/2019