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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2815573, member: 74282"]They may look good to you but you are very new to ancient coins as you mentioned in your first post. Until you've handled several coins and spent some time studying authentic coins as well as fakes, I highly recommend against buying anything on eBay. There are plenty of good sellers and good coins on there, but there are also a number of fakesellers and fakes and you cannot trust the feedback system, so you have to learn both how to spot a suspect coin and how to spot a suspect seller and there is no shortcut for either one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of this, my recommendation is to stick with sellers on Vcoins, sellers in the for sale section here and auction houses like CNG, Roma, Agora, etc. If an eBay seller is recommended by a collector here on the forum they're probably a safe bet as well but I would shy away from other sellers on eBay for the time being. Too many new collectors fall into the same trap of buying their first coins on eBay and find out later that they're fakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2815573, member: 74282"]They may look good to you but you are very new to ancient coins as you mentioned in your first post. Until you've handled several coins and spent some time studying authentic coins as well as fakes, I highly recommend against buying anything on eBay. There are plenty of good sellers and good coins on there, but there are also a number of fakesellers and fakes and you cannot trust the feedback system, so you have to learn both how to spot a suspect coin and how to spot a suspect seller and there is no shortcut for either one. Because of this, my recommendation is to stick with sellers on Vcoins, sellers in the for sale section here and auction houses like CNG, Roma, Agora, etc. If an eBay seller is recommended by a collector here on the forum they're probably a safe bet as well but I would shy away from other sellers on eBay for the time being. Too many new collectors fall into the same trap of buying their first coins on eBay and find out later that they're fakes.[/QUOTE]
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