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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4564921, member: 72790"]Question, please. I started collecting decades ago and over the years I have picked up a few fake ancients, usually at shows and did not find out they were fakes until years later. More recently I have bought coins from dealers listed on a popular coin consortium of sellers. I do not buy from auction houses. I have to ask this question. I am probably paying some kind of premium to do this. When I buy from these sellers from this consortium, dealers who have been selling there for years, am I wasting my money doing this or am I less likely to pick up fakes? There is one gentleman who has his own site as well as advertises on the consortium. He really is a student of numismatics and though the coins he sells are not as numerous as others, the research he seems to do on the ones he offers makes me feel secure about what I am buying. Am I just whistling past the graveyard or are coins from dealers like this less likely to be fakes than what the auction houses are offering?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4564921, member: 72790"]Question, please. I started collecting decades ago and over the years I have picked up a few fake ancients, usually at shows and did not find out they were fakes until years later. More recently I have bought coins from dealers listed on a popular coin consortium of sellers. I do not buy from auction houses. I have to ask this question. I am probably paying some kind of premium to do this. When I buy from these sellers from this consortium, dealers who have been selling there for years, am I wasting my money doing this or am I less likely to pick up fakes? There is one gentleman who has his own site as well as advertises on the consortium. He really is a student of numismatics and though the coins he sells are not as numerous as others, the research he seems to do on the ones he offers makes me feel secure about what I am buying. Am I just whistling past the graveyard or are coins from dealers like this less likely to be fakes than what the auction houses are offering?[/QUOTE]
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