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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3008908, member: 112"]And it's important to realize that rule applies to over-valued as well as under-valued. </p><p><br /></p><p>That's a part of what I was going to discuss further once I had an answer to my original question. But my primary point in asking the question was this. Over the years I have seen way, way, too many people who not only thought but were absolutely convinced that a coin was worth X dollars when in reality it was only worth some fraction of that. And I'm pretty sure that applies to ancient coins as well as it does to US Coins, world coins, modern, medieval, any and all coins. People are people even if the coins are not.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the same token I'm not trying to imply that the OP fit into that category, but rather that that category of people most certainly does exist. And because that category of people exist, it becomes an item of greater importance because import/export, customs, taxes, etc etc is involved with international transactions. It's a simple fact that these things matter, perhaps a great deal, in these scenarios. So much greater care needs to be taken so as to reflect accuracy when valuing coins. Otherwise, you may not like the consequences ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3008908, member: 112"]And it's important to realize that rule applies to over-valued as well as under-valued. That's a part of what I was going to discuss further once I had an answer to my original question. But my primary point in asking the question was this. Over the years I have seen way, way, too many people who not only thought but were absolutely convinced that a coin was worth X dollars when in reality it was only worth some fraction of that. And I'm pretty sure that applies to ancient coins as well as it does to US Coins, world coins, modern, medieval, any and all coins. People are people even if the coins are not. By the same token I'm not trying to imply that the OP fit into that category, but rather that that category of people most certainly does exist. And because that category of people exist, it becomes an item of greater importance because import/export, customs, taxes, etc etc is involved with international transactions. It's a simple fact that these things matter, perhaps a great deal, in these scenarios. So much greater care needs to be taken so as to reflect accuracy when valuing coins. Otherwise, you may not like the consequences ![/QUOTE]
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