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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1909086, member: 19463&quot;]Perhaps YOC misunderstood my position.&nbsp; I buy many coins from sources that know little or nothing but not coins that I can not afford to &#039;eat&#039; if I am wrong in my judgement of the coin and/or the seller.&nbsp; For example, I would like to own an Eastern mint aureus of Septimius Severus.&nbsp; I would not buy that coin from YOC unless we had a prior agreement about it clearing my showing it to a couple people.&nbsp; The only dealers that come to mind whose opinions I would place above mine on the matter would be Barry Murphy and Harlan Berk (because he employs Curtis Clay).&nbsp; Barry recently sold one for something over $38,000 (it was too nice - I need one with a hole or two and a lot of wear).&nbsp; I would like to own a Septimius Severus provincial with the Noah&#039;s Ark reverse.&nbsp; I would not buy it from anyone I could afford to buy it from so I will never fill that want.&nbsp;&nbsp; Would I buy a denarius of Caligula from a fuzzy photo on eBay from a dealer in Eastern Europe?&nbsp; What do you think?&nbsp; Certainly dealers have to start somewhere but I do admit preference for people who became dealers after collecting for several years and being employed by a &#039;name&#039; dealer.&nbsp;&nbsp; May 2 I will go to a coin show which will have 3-6 ancient sellers.&nbsp; One or two will be of a class that I am confident I will see a fake in their stock.&nbsp; One or two will be of a class that I will be surprised to see anything questionable.&nbsp; What makes the show a winner or a loser will be the surprises that turn up in either stock but you can bet that the bulk of my buys, and anything at all expensive, will come from the ones I know and trust.&nbsp;&nbsp; They will have more I want than I can afford so a coin really has to be special to select it over something I also like that carries less risk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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