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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2123569, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">OGG =&gt; it is always difficult to judge a coin by a photo, so if there is ever any doubt, I usually steer clear of the unknown (NOTE: but some folks like to gamble and boldly go where no coin-man has gone before!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... Ummm, I&#039;m fairly lousy at spotting fakes, so always take me words with a grain of salt ... when I first started collecting ancients (before knowing the usefulness of these coin chat sites) I bought a couple of coins that have a similar look to the two that you are pondering ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; both had been harshly cleaned and I ended-up finding-out that they&#039;d both been waxed so they&#039;d look all shiny (not really what I was looking for, but I hastily bought them anyway) ... </span></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402953[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402950[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402951[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]402952[/ATTACH]&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; I ended-up spending $50 each (plus shipping) to have eventual peace-of-mind (David Sear gazed at them and luckily both coins checked-out as being &quot;authentic&quot;) .... however, I spent more than $50 extra on both of them just so I could relax and enjoy them (looking-back, I wish that I&#039;d steered-clear of these two examples and waited for a couple that looked a bit better and that didn&#039;t have big question-marks surrounding them) ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; but &quot;good luck&quot; which ever direction you decide to follow </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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