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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8192990, member: 110350&quot;]&quot;Pretty book smart&quot;? I guess that&#039;s a good example of damning with faint praise. You have more than met my expectations. But I plead guilty to all the failings you list; I&#039;ve already explained why I was distracted and therefore careless. I&#039;ve never spent anything close to that amount before on an impulse purchase myself. In fact, it&#039;s only recently that I first spent more than about $1,000 on any individual coin (the Vespasian aureus).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, even in my initial post -- and in my email to the dealer -- I certainly indicated that I thought the dealer&#039;s description, even in French without translation, was misleading. Intentionally or otherwise. And that opinion never changed fundamentally: it was only strengthened by the several native speakers of French who posted in the thread, and agreed that the language the dealer used was ambiguous at the very least. The fact that the re-listing of the coin now omits any mention of what I interpreted as provenance indicates to me that the dealer himself recognizes that his original listing was potentially misleading.&nbsp; So I think there was fault on both sides, even if I could have mitigated the effect of the dealer&#039;s potentially misleading description by checking what I had interpreted as the provenance before buying, and/or by asking the dealer to clarify. I suppose I got it into my head that if I delayed, someone else would buy the coin. Not a very rational concern, I admit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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