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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8285214, member: 26430&quot;]Misattribution can be a collector&#039;s best friend! It&#039;s the main reason I occasional go trolling through some of the new budget auctioneers we&#039;re all aware of. I got all of these ones, all badly misattributed, for what I considered to be very low prices:</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare Price 2712 misattributed as a much more common &quot;lifetime Tetradrachm&quot; (note: I believe C<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Price+818+tetradrachm+-Arados&amp;category=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Price+818+tetradrachm+-Arados&amp;category=1" rel="nofollow">NG recently misattributed one, as Heritage has a couple times, as Price 818-819</a>; following up on his volumes and the coins he cited as examples, I think Price himself got those ones mixed up with the 2712 vars. [<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Price+2712+alexander&amp;category=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Price+2712+alexander&amp;category=1" rel="nofollow">actual examples in ACSearch</a>]):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463642[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare Alexander III Hemidrachm misattributed as a drachm (the larger but much more common and cheaper denomination, compared to the hemi):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463643[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Crab Diobol/Trihemiobol misidentified as a smaller much more common obol/hemiobol:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463645[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All those are from the same auction house notorious for such errors. Of course, buying from that source also means I have less confidence in their authenticity. (Archaic fractions with zero provenance, like the Kos Diobol, make me a bit nervous.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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