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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 3277544, member: 39084&quot;]I feel compelled to respond here, although I decided not to respond to BM&#039;s earlier post, but it has been reposted so it requires setting the record straight.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>My Judaea Capta sestertius (I incorrectly typed &quot;denarius&quot; in my original post) is most assuredly NOT tooled. </b> BM&#039;s opinion about my coin is, well, BM.&nbsp; It is uninformed by any personal inspection of the coin, and the implication about its being epoxied is ignorant in the extreme; in fact, its ignorance is bewildering for an individual who claims to have some expertise and competence in ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s more information about my acquisition and my coin&#039;s background: My dealer is Steve Rubinger. Steve is the dealer whom Mike Gasvoda effusively praised in the NAC catalog 94, Part II, starting on page 7; Steve guided Mike to collecting his $10M+ collection of ancient coins, including one of the most spectacular and significant collections of Twelve Caesars ever assembled.</p><p><br /></p><p>Steve sold me this coin from a private owner, and before I had even paid for it, Steve had another buyer who was willing to buy it for over three times what I paid. I declined the offer.&nbsp; Steve&#039;s been dealing in ancient coins for over 40 years. Ask yourself whom would you trust: a world-class dealer who has sold literally tens of millions of dollars of coins to high-end collectors, or an individual who has never seen the coin in hand but is willing to make definitive determinations based solely on a picture taken by an amateur photographer (me) as well as make snide comments about it?</p><p><br /></p><p>I would have preferred to leave BM&#039;s earlier post unaddressed but the resurrection of his comments made my response unavoidable.&nbsp; They are simply not true and not based in reality.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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