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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Steelers72, post: 7552651, member: 112504&quot;]A little update, a fellow CT member with much better coin investigative skills than myself found this same coin in a past sale&nbsp; - with much better pictures. I guess because it is in German I never could find it. Thank you very much to that member!</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6292101" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6292101" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6292101</a></p><p>&nbsp;note the description - <i>slightly tooled</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>of note, hammered for less than a 1/3rd of the price that I paid, as I mentioned earlier in this thread (based on similar coins with similar conditions I made that assessment). Now that the exact coin has been found, I think that is more than sufficient proof. The issues do bring down the price that much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the auction house responded the below after my second email with better in hand pictures:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Thank you for your email with the pictures.</i></p><p><i>As already told, we are prepared to check the lot again for you, but we are sure that you will understand that, in order to be able to conduct further investigations, we will need the piece without the plastic holder.</i></p><p><i>Our address for the shipment is —</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but I will be sending the coin back to them upon arrival. When I send them the tracking number, I will send them the link to this coin’s previous sale and note how it was described as tooled. I will include a printed copy of this auction with the coin out of the slab. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the lesson here, is to always check if a coin you’re buying has a previous sale online.&nbsp; Dont rely on an auction house to disclose all issues and take accurate pictures. Read the descriptions, compare pictures carefully. It can be difficult when the sales are in different languages, but do your best to navigate.</p><p>I am still of the opinion, if we pay 20% auction fees, we should be demanding better from auction houses[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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