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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8187068, member: 110350&quot;][USER=118780]@kirispupis[/USER], I assure you that I&#039;m kicking myself for buying the coin without checking what I thought was the previous sale. Had it been 3 pm instead of 3 am, I almost certainly would have. But naively, it simply didn&#039;t occur to me that a MA-Shops dealer, even one I never heard of, might misrepresent provenance, intentionally or otherwise. </p><p><br /></p><p>It isn&#039;t necessarily an excuse for my carelessness, but I couldn&#039;t really sleep, what with my eye still hurting more than 48 hours after my second cataract surgery, and what with thinking about my poor sister, and still not knowing what happened to her, or how she died, or why I wasn&#039;t notified right away by the Embassy, or even where she&#039;s buried or if anyone there in Hungary even knew that she was Jewish, or who&#039;s living in her house now. (I&#039;m in the process of retaining an attorney in Budapest to look into all these things.) So I was trying to distract myself.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe it&#039;s R2. More importantly, under these circumstances, why should I necessarily trust that this dealer&#039;s photo accurately represents the coin? Photos can be misleading, just like words. For example, I was considering this coin as a considerably cheaper (and rarer) substitute if I should receive a refund:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432438[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Until I found this auction photo of the same coin from a year or two ago:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1432439[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(If you zoom in, the scratches on Constans&#039;s face are much more obvious in the earlier photo.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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