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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1499894, member: 26302&quot;]You don&#039;t think numerous experts had not already looked at this coin? Harlan Berk himself is a published author on ancients, he employs others arguably more qualified than him. Also, the coin was for sale, so other experts like David Sear and many others had looked at it as well. If a coin is demonstably false word quickly gets around, and its withdrawn from sale usually. What happened here must be an excellent fake that fooled a lot of experts for a long time. Eventually someone proved to Harlan&#039;s satisfaction it must be fake, Harlan did the right thing and refunded his customer&#039;s money, its Antiqua who is not refunding the money. Evidently Antiqua is not convinced its a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>This has happened with antiquities all of the time, they sit in museum collections for decades before anyone finds out they are false. No &quot;special expert panel&quot; will ever change that. Its the nature of the hobby. This is why you buy coins of high dollar from reputable dealers, they provide you lifetime return privileges if a coin is ever proved false. Mr. berk has done just that, so the collector who bought this piece got their refund. I bet they are glad they didn&#039;t buy it off Ebay.......[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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