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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3255056, member: 83956"]It was the early 2000s. I had just learned about buying uncleaned bulk lot coins. (I have since grown more discriminating, and more concerned about ethical sources.) But in my neophyte greed I found a seller of the cheapest coins, which he noted up front were “AE4.” I bought them anyway, not really knowing how small an AE4 was and ended up with about 100 Roman coins so tiny that there was no way my unpracticed eye could identify them. I’d probably struggle now, even if it were a decent lot, and by AE4 standards, I believe it was.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately (?) I found a pretty obvious Constantinople commemorative fake in the lot, and he had a guarantee. I simply asked to exchange the value of the lot for the same value in the larger AE3s. He graciously agreed, and I still have many collectible coins from that first lot. Those were the days when you could still find coins in VF+ shape in such lots. So a reasonably happy ending for a rookie mistake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3255056, member: 83956"]It was the early 2000s. I had just learned about buying uncleaned bulk lot coins. (I have since grown more discriminating, and more concerned about ethical sources.) But in my neophyte greed I found a seller of the cheapest coins, which he noted up front were “AE4.” I bought them anyway, not really knowing how small an AE4 was and ended up with about 100 Roman coins so tiny that there was no way my unpracticed eye could identify them. I’d probably struggle now, even if it were a decent lot, and by AE4 standards, I believe it was. Fortunately (?) I found a pretty obvious Constantinople commemorative fake in the lot, and he had a guarantee. I simply asked to exchange the value of the lot for the same value in the larger AE3s. He graciously agreed, and I still have many collectible coins from that first lot. Those were the days when you could still find coins in VF+ shape in such lots. So a reasonably happy ending for a rookie mistake.[/QUOTE]
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