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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1804915, member: 19463&quot;]Grouchy old man rant:</p><p>Since I worry too much that some completely new beginner might stumble upon this thread and see Randy&#039;s post without being in on the joke, please be sure you understand that all four of the &quot;Randy Grade&quot; are modern fakes with a cash value approaching zero.&nbsp; If you are a new collector of ancient coins and some seller offers you coins like these, run, do not walk, the other way.&nbsp; In truth there are quite a few fake ancients but probably no more than there are fakes in other areas of coin collecting.&nbsp; The trouble usually comes when a new collector thinks even for a split second that he can get a genuine 2000 year old coin of the types these copy for a bargain price.&nbsp;&nbsp; These four are horrid replicas that should not fool anyone who stops to think about it but we who hang around places like Coin Talk see someone asking about one of them every few months.&nbsp; Sometimes they come with a really great story about grandpa bringing them back from the war or having found them in a flea market on the last trip to Italy but they are always the same and always fakes from the old days of the 20th century (that may be giving some too much credit).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Please, if you are new to an interest in ancient coins do not take the mention of these items in this thread as any sign that these four items are in any way ancient coins - not even a 1% chance.&nbsp; The guy that posted them and the others that commented were in on the joke.&nbsp; Now you are, too.&nbsp; Be interested in ancient coins and read the threads here on CT but spend your money on real items from people you can trust and don&#039;t buy these four coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>End of stiff backboned rant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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