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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7361319, member: 19463&quot;]In this last post, you mention NGC.&nbsp; I would suggest that you are wasting your money and our time if you are going to second guess the most reliable (perhaps only worthwhile) TPG for ancients. When they say it is fake, it is.&nbsp; In the case of the Diadumenian the style and fabric strike me as off.&nbsp; How did you determine the 95% silver figure?&nbsp; Does it not bother you that 95% is about double the appropriate silver purity for a Severan era denarius?&nbsp; Several people above have taken you to task for buying things about which you have insufficient knowledge but I&#039;m as bothered by paying for an opinion and not accepting it as if the provider was not expert enough to trust when they report against your wishes.&nbsp; If I were to be offered an old collection of coins including this coin, I would figure the value of the item as if it were fake because my level of expertise is not high enough to accept the coin which strikes me as more Bulgarian than Roman and possibly intentionally defaced to make it look believable.&nbsp; When the half that came back rejected were returned, was there no hint of why?&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking &#039;Modern Fake&#039;, &#039;Bulgarian&#039;, &#039;Lippanoff&#039; or something more definite than &#039;Unable to Determine Authenticity&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Old collections often are made up of a mix of two kinds of coins: (1) genuine coins of no interest and (2) coins of great interest that are not genuine.&nbsp; I will be interested in seeing the Pertinax, Didius, Pescennius etc from this collection if they are included. We never know if grandpa knew he was buying fakes or if he was victim of a fake-seller from a previous generation.&nbsp; When you buy apples by the barrel, it is best to assume there will be some worms in the bottom.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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