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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4213538, member: 19463&quot;]You have violated the &#039;rules&#039; we have advised here many times.&nbsp; You ask us to say from photos whether a coin is genuine or not.&nbsp; This is never safe.&nbsp; You bought coins you do not know well yourself from someone who you do not know and trust.&nbsp; We always advise you either know the coins or know the seller.&nbsp; Someone here will tell you the coins look good and that may be true but this is still based only on photos and photos can be deceptive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your next step should be to show the coins in person to a full service dealer in ancient coins (not just any and all coins) OR to send them to a paid third party like NGC or David Sear.&nbsp; There are poor fakes that we can tell easily from even poor photos but these three, if they are fake, are good looking and deceptive. They need to be seen in person by someone who knows Roman Republican coins.&nbsp; The important thing is to stop buying coins you do not feel comfortable with to the point you ask us, a bunch of strangers, whether we think the coins are good.&nbsp; Possibly, after you have participated here for a while, you might know which of our members are good with which kinds of coins and you might ask them privately giving them the name of the seller.&nbsp; There are people and places from which most of us would not buy a coin under any circumstances.&nbsp; Did you check the published lists of known &#039;Fake Sellers&#039; to see if your source is known to be a problem?&nbsp; There are people we would trust over our own personal opinions assuming they had seen the coin &#039;in hand&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry I can not give the simple answer you want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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