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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1980185, member: 19463&quot;]In the US, those accused of a felony are innocent until proven guilty.&nbsp; For those of us who collect ancient coins, things we see in local coin shops run by US experts are best considered guilty until proven innocent.&nbsp; If you count up the number of Indo Greek silver coins we have been shown here on CT by people who presume them to be authentic and the coins we have seen in shops run by people who are not really into ancients, you will find that the vast majority are fakes ranging from a bit deceptive to hilariously terrible.&nbsp; We repeatedly tell people that beginners should buy coins from trusted specialist dealers and not from pawn shops, coin shops who have a large sign out front &quot;We Buy Gold&quot; or people you meet while on vacation &#039;over there&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry I offended anyone.&nbsp; I am also sorry that most of the coins we here on CT have warned were fakes were probably recycled into the hands someone else who will be holding out hope that there is some chance the &#039;$2000&#039; coin is genuine and they made a killing buying it for only a hundred or two.&nbsp;&nbsp; Do I assume the worst?&nbsp; Certainly!&nbsp; I have seen this before.&nbsp; People who buy good coins from good sources that have a really high probability of being genuine do not post fuzzy phone photos on an amateur discussion board.&nbsp; After seeing this scenario run by several times we might be better off just ignoring the post and letting someone else say &#039;nice coin&#039;.&nbsp; &nbsp; I would hate to fall for one that was a high quality fake just because I have seen so many terrible ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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