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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Olisipo, post: 2261823, member: 75543&quot;]Thank you. If the seller keeps playing dumb I&#039;ll definitely ask Ebay to intercede.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since people here seem more laid back than in most coin Forum(s) I&#039;ve endured I&#039;ll share with you the uproarious conversation I&#039;ve had with this auction house. Context: I sent the coin back, registered mail as usual; however, since the tracking site was in Portuguese they must have negleted to checked it, because a couple of days after marking the coin as shipped I get this:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Dear Mr. [Olisipo],</p><p><br /></p><p>I am very sorry, but the coins are 100 % authentic. <i>We have checked them now two times. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes underweight and overweight coins are in circulation, that does not mean that they are modern imitations!</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards, [person]&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, have you? My response:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I assume your judgement was based solely on the two photographs on Ebay, since according to tracking information the coins haven&#039;t left Portugal yet. I entreat you to wait for when you&#039;ve had a chance to analyze the coins in hand. I believe you&#039;ll see clearly that at least the Antoninus looks very problematic; specially the border features I mentioned, which are not visible in the photographs. If necessary I can send you a few of the pictures I took of the coin&#039;s edge. As for the Commodus, while denarii above standard weight do show up, 4 g is very alarming, specially for a specimen from the late second century. Perhaps I wouldn&#039;t have been concerned if it belonged to a different lot. I concede I can&#039;t be sure about that one. But I stand by what I said about the Antoninus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for your kind attention,</p><p>Manuel.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>A few people might be surprised if I said which AH produced this parody.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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