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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2773831, member: 80783&quot;]According to the auction house, the consigner now understands that the coin is a fake but nevertheless thinks it is valuable enough to offer it to the second highest bidder for not much less and will not even think about selling it for twice the price that I would find acceptable for a good cast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would I buy from the seller again?</p><p>While I do think that the auction company has not done their &quot;homework&quot; properly in this case (is that not part of what they are paid for?), they nevertheless cancelled the item without problems and I had an interesting talk with them. I did buy two other coins in the same auction (not as rare or expensive though) and I might post those later in their own right.</p><p><br /></p><p>What did I learn from the exercise?</p><p>Probably that it is a good idea to post coins here before you pay the seller <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>In any case the whole thing was another educational experience for me (and I hope for some of you, too), because I learned more about forgeries, saved money, enjoyed a die analysis of Matidia´s bronze coinage, and had interesting correspondences with the Göttingen Coin Cabinet and some of the renowned experts in the field (I doubt that Barry Murphy, David Sear, or a museum would have taken their time to help me if I had bought an average Ant or LRB instead).</p><p>So I will keep going for the rare and risky once in a while (I still want a Pertinax Sestertius...).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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