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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3254930, member: 98035"]I once bought a lot of coins from 'nikafinds' of Cyprus on ebay because it had a Republican denarius. I won it at a price too good to be true, and of course the denarius wasn't just a fake, it was a <i>published </i>fake. Fortunately, he refunded my money with no fuss.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started trying to buy ancient coins from auction house lots to flip to fund my hobby, I bought an enormous lot from Leu Numismatik that looked like it was all third century antoninianii in XF and bright, good silver. Probably would have been $60-100 per coin, and I was thrilled to win them for like $50 per coin. Turns out, 2/3 of the coins were struck with extremely worn dies on one side, and the auction house carefully arranged them to hide this fact. "Sold as-is; no returns" so I had to bite the bullet and take the loss on that one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3254930, member: 98035"]I once bought a lot of coins from 'nikafinds' of Cyprus on ebay because it had a Republican denarius. I won it at a price too good to be true, and of course the denarius wasn't just a fake, it was a [I]published [/I]fake. Fortunately, he refunded my money with no fuss. When I started trying to buy ancient coins from auction house lots to flip to fund my hobby, I bought an enormous lot from Leu Numismatik that looked like it was all third century antoninianii in XF and bright, good silver. Probably would have been $60-100 per coin, and I was thrilled to win them for like $50 per coin. Turns out, 2/3 of the coins were struck with extremely worn dies on one side, and the auction house carefully arranged them to hide this fact. "Sold as-is; no returns" so I had to bite the bullet and take the loss on that one.[/QUOTE]
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