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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2503976, member: 19463&quot;]Exactly!&nbsp; We are not here to insult anyone except, perhaps, people who sell fakes to beginners.&nbsp; Some of us have been posting here for several years and other places for years before that.&nbsp; The same questions come up regularly.&nbsp; Some of us, myself included, occasionally have coins that we question and may post them here as well as sending them off to have someone else look at them on occasion in the hope that e will get an answer that we will be able to accept fully in our own minds.&nbsp; Some coins are way past the opinion stage and the only question is what class fake they are.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is where Carausius&#039; comment comes in.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are fakes made from genuine coins, fakes made by casting from fakes, fakes from new dies faithfully copying originals, fantasies made that bear no resemblance to anything genuine ever considered by the ancients and probably a few dozen categories I left out here.&nbsp; You could cut out this collecting of ancient coins and spend the rest of your life devoted to the study of numismatic fakes.&nbsp; I have chosen other branches of the hobby.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=319718" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=319718" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=319718</a></p><p>The recent CNG sale included the above lot I considered interesting.&nbsp;&nbsp; The 84 coins in the lot were all fake and I suspect judging from the photo there were a number of different types a great deal closer to being deceptive than our quiz coins here.&nbsp; At a little over $2 a coin, buying that group could provide some valuable education.&nbsp; CNG is not known for cheap realizations but if they will sell you a certain fake for ~$2, what do you think the fair market value on the coin would be in bargain outlets?&nbsp; Joe over at Forvm has a great piece of advice: Either know the coin or know the seller.&nbsp; We all get in trouble when we think we do and don&#039;t.&nbsp; Here is my advice for gambling on coins:&nbsp; Take the cash you were going to spend on questionable coins and buy Lottery Tickets until you hit the $100 million prize and can afford to buy unquestionable coins in a proper venue.&nbsp; By the time you win the Lottery, you will have had plenty of time to study which sellers are worthy of your business.&nbsp; If I had a spare $1-10 million, I know some people I would feel secure in hiring to spend it on my behalf (for a reasonable fee, of course).&nbsp; This is the best of both worlds satisfying your need to gamble and perhaps even allow you to get some nice coins if you are very, very lucky.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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