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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1685878, member: 19463&quot;]This coin had all the signs of something to avoid according to our standard advice.&nbsp; The seller dealt mostly in things other than ancient coins and came from a country that I have had problems with before in terms of non-delivery.&nbsp; The photo was good enough that I believed the coin was of correct style and the surfaces are not the kind easily and frequently falsified so I bid on it fully expecting to lose it to someone at the last second.&nbsp; My most recent previous FH coin (the doublestruck PARL) also came from &#039;overseas&#039; costing more in postage than for the coin itself.&nbsp; It also came from a non-coin dealer.&nbsp; I see a pattern here.&nbsp; The only reason I risked bids on either is that the coins were of a style that I considered very appropriate for their type and mint but were not exact duplicates of the usual examples down to the finest detail.&nbsp; Compare to DK FT 553 RIC 82 on Dane&#039;s FH site:</p><p><a href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/ft-constantinople.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/ft-constantinople.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/ft-constantinople.htm</a></p><p>They are not die duplicates but probably were cut by the same hand IMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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