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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1985401, member: 19463&quot;]If you have only made one mistake and bought one fake (painkillers or not) you are either very good or very new to the hobby.&nbsp; I really would like to know a number of how many unrecognized fakes lurk in my collection so I could start trying to figure out which ones they are.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A dealer whom I hold in great respect used to sell Eastern mint denarii of Septimius Severus with a note that they were probably fakes or barbarous.&nbsp; They are different and, if you have handled a thousand Rome mint coins, I can see how you might be led to that conclusion.&nbsp; It takes a lifetime of learning to get even half way dangerous at this game.&nbsp; If a dealer ever tells you he knows everything and never makes a mistake, he just made two.&nbsp; You can post your suspect and we will each have an opinion.&nbsp; Some of us may even be correct. </p><p><br /></p><p>Questions:&nbsp; If one of us has a thousand coins and in that number there are ten unrecognized fakes, is that member a fool that should be driven from the herd and ridiculed or just a bit misguided making progress toward a better state?&nbsp; Same question but instead of ten the count is one?&nbsp; Of the last 3000 coins I bought, I returned about three for authenticity.&nbsp; I wonder how many of those kept should have been returned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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