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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1978115, member: 19463&quot;]The most certain sign of ignorance when speaking of ancient coins is the making of statements about &#039;the ancients&#039; as if they were one people in one time who followed some sort of &#039;how to be an ancient&#039; handbook.&nbsp; In coins, there are pure and debased.&nbsp; In pure, there are 99% pure and quite a variety of trace elements that help pin down where the ore originated.&nbsp; To make things worse, some, not all, issues incorporated older coins in the melt to make newer ones so it is always possible there will be a strange trace in an unexpected place.&nbsp; I agree with AJ that all his coins are 99.9% certainly genuine.&nbsp; When people start saying 100%, I can not go along.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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