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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Market Harmony, post: 1086205, member: 20154&quot;]Yes, all the pictures that I have posted are of the same coin.&nbsp; The coin is counterfeit. </p><p><br /></p><p>I picked it up from a guy in a non-coin environment (red flag #1), he only wanted $400 for it (red flag #2), details looked &quot;mushy&quot; upon brief inspection (red flag #3), seller was open to trade for another coin of lesser value (red flag #4)...However, these red flags weren&#039;t totally discouraging.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been in the &quot;game&quot; long enough to know that it was gold, and I had my suspicions that it was fake, but I still wanted the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I figured that the worst that I could do it pay his price and learn about the coin.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong, $200 is a considerable amount to potentially lose on the deal (paid minus melt), but in the long run, this &quot;loss&quot; will not matter to me... and that&#039;s the only important part... how I perceive the transaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>That $200 was tuition.&nbsp; From what I learned and was able to share, $200 was a deal.&nbsp; Hands on experience beats anything from a book.&nbsp; Books are written by those who have experience, not by those that read other books.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying that I am writing a book, but I am saying that I can intelligently speak on the dynamics of this particular deal and relay that information to others with better understanding and insight than what any book can give.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, some may say that I lost, but I look at this as a win for me.&nbsp; I hope those that followed this thread got something from it.&nbsp; My wins increase with every person that learned something by reading this thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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