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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 5397192, member: 95174&quot;][USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER]&nbsp; i a. Trying to complete&nbsp; a collection of the 12th century, one of my biggest hurdles is Andronicus gold coinage I do not know what is real and what is not. A series of fake Andronicus coins hit the auction houses and many proved to be fake after&nbsp; sale. I do not want slabbed coins nor do&nbsp; I have&nbsp; complete faith in the coins thst are circulating&nbsp; in auctions now,&nbsp; slabbed or not. Right now my best bet is buying and getting them authenticated by David Sear but what&nbsp; if i buy a forgery. It is a hard hurdle to overcome. </p><p><br /></p><p>The other issue is John Ii thessalonica&nbsp; issue, john iii is hot right now so many auctions are pitching&nbsp; coins that are John II Comnenus as John III of Nicea.&nbsp; The only way to differentiate is how many carats&nbsp; the coin is. John II 20 carats,&nbsp; John.III is 17. No auction house is testing them. Its all a guess.&nbsp; No&nbsp; way to&nbsp; visually&nbsp; see a difference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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