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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2243171, member: 19463&quot;]I want to point out a couple things here that show someone was doing things the right way.&nbsp; 90% of these sold are fakes.&nbsp; Buying a Caligula with a pedigree from a known collector from a knowledgeable dealer just might be a good idea and worth the extra cost.&nbsp; A coin this poor is not the easiest to expertise. </p><p><br /></p><p>A bad idea on the other hand would be to buy a coin like mine below.&nbsp; It is a fake.&nbsp; I bought it as a fake quite a while ago and it has been toning nicely since.&nbsp; You might say you know it is fake because it is too good to be real.&nbsp; Now imaging the result if I had been carrying it in my coin purse for these last couple decades and added a few digs.&nbsp; I could feed it to a goat or boil it in witches brew to make this $20,000 looking fake into a $200 looking fake but since I paid $4 for the coin (they are more now) and may have spent about that much making it look terrible.&nbsp; That is still good profit.&nbsp; Be very careful buying trashy looking Caligula denarii.&nbsp; I have seen many that started out just like mine.&nbsp; Mine shows hair cut more coarsely than the real ones in EF would show. Making it into a VG will take care of that problem, believe me!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]442703[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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