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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2603858, member: 19463&quot;]Lets take ten 100% genuine ancient coins and place certificates with them that attest to their being genuine.&nbsp; If that opinion is issued by NGC or David Sear, many people will pay as much for the opinion as for the coin.&nbsp; If that opinion is by a seller of repute (lets say CNG) people will pay more than if the same coin were being offered by one of us even if both will refund if an error is made (remember, all the coins in question here are genuine without doubt by definition for the purpose of this exercise).&nbsp; If some of us were selling the coin, some others would suspect there must be something wrong with it or that person would not be letting it out of his grasp. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":inpain:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; I believe most of us tend to go hard on sellers who issue certificates and those who bill themselves as Numismatic Experts even if they are good at what they do.&nbsp; I believe you have done well to specify Provenance rather than Authenticity on the paper but I suspect that a good number who see it will not make the distinction.&nbsp; Who was it that said that a prophet gets no respect in his own land?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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