How could this document be prohibited???
look similar to: We did not see the document thus it looks similar to nothing.
No government issued this certificate! This was not a government ID but a hospital certificate.
This was a birth certificate which every single person on this planet receives the moment they are born (with a few exceptions, of course!)
I know that you were thinking of badges here, but it's more than just "stinkin' badges."
Item No. 160344928067 was described as "a certified copy of President Barack Obama's Kenyan Birth Certificate."
Hospitals do not certify birth certificates - governments do.
A government certified birth certificate is a government identification document (Ch.18 USC, Sec. 1028)
The Ebay rule specifically states that "...items that claim to be, or that look similar to, government identification documents."