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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1204432, member: 21309&quot;]Attended my first Whitman Lecture today but it won&#039;t be my last:</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; MSNA Distinguished Lecture Series:</p><p>&nbsp; &quot;Buyer Beware,&quot; by Anthony Swiatek (<a href="http://mdstatenumisassn.org/MSNA/2011/02/13/anthony-swiatek-buying-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mdstatenumisassn.org/MSNA/2011/02/13/anthony-swiatek-buying-coins/" rel="nofollow">http://mdstatenumisassn.org/MSNA/2011/02/13/anthony-swiatek-buying-coins/</a>)</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; He was introduced by Dr Larry Goldman who did an excellent job describing&nbsp; some of Mr Swiatek&#039;s accomplishments eg,</p><p>&nbsp; author of several books, including one on the Walking Liberty half dollar, life time memberships in several prestigious societies, the go to coin guy for the </p><p>&nbsp; Federal government (he recently testified in a fifty five million dollar coin fraud case resulting in fifteen year sentence for the defendant), past president of several organizations and societies.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; He started by presenting common sense things to do to avoid getting ripped off, then he talked about some of the big legal cases he&#039;s been involved in.</p><p>&nbsp; Then came the presentation - how to spot altered coins, applying Bondo to cover up flaws.&nbsp;&nbsp; CC dollars where the &quot;CC&quot; has been added and in some&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; humorous cases fell off., dealers adding mint marks, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; Toward the end of the presentation he had the audience laughing almost continuously.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; At the end of the presentation, which ran over and only ended because some of the big guns had to do something else or somebody else had to use the room,</p><p>&nbsp; he was presented a check, honorarium, by the Maryland State Numismatic Society, which he immediately donated to the Society.</p><p><br /></p><p>Netherlands Indies five gulden note.&nbsp;&nbsp; This one is pretty nice, extra fine, I think, </p><p>everyone one of these notes from three different vendors had problems.&nbsp; This one </p><p>is crisp, pretty sharp corners, no visible folds, but a small blemish in the upper left hand corner.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]127113.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]127114.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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