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Message:: [QUOTE="Gao, post: 659169, member: 19409"]I've generally done pretty well with ancients, though I haven't sold any part of my collection. My best deal was from a guy who was obviously very new to eBay and didn't really know what he was doing. He had no feedback, and he was trying to sell a double sestertius of Postumus that he described as a "Christian artifact" (the coin was from 3rd century AD France and had no relationship whatsoever with Christianity that I could think of), and he only provided this one zoomed out picture of the thing. I checked with a forgery board, and they didn't see anything obviously fake, but it was very hard to tell from the picture. I figured that I'd risk maybe $10 on it, since if it were real, it would be worth over $100. I asked him for a picture of the reverse, and he sent me the high res version of the front as well. Turns out that he didn't know how to crop a photo and eBay just sized it down automatically. The coin was definitely very real looking. I upped my bid a bit, and I ended up getting it for $10.50 with free shipping. The coin is real, and the seller ended up telling me how he was disappointed, since he got it for $90, which itself was a decent deal. I felt a bit bad for the guy, but the coin is now one of the gems of my collection.[/QUOTE]