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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4848951, member: 110504"]...Woops, over the last couple of days, I saw '<font size="4">A coin's fall from the Graces. Post of Shame,' and other threads, linking to a very good thread on Forvm Ancient Coins. To all appearances, the attribution was an exercise in wishful thinking from the beginning. And dealers ran with it ...and ran, and ran.</font></p><p><font size="4">Fortunately, Frank Robinson reiterated the fact that he accepts returns --although he already sent the coin; kind of the downside of his penchant for sending stuff 'on approval,' since the Paypal hadn't cleared. ...Whew. That was money I didn't have to throw away.</font></p><p><font size="4">From now on, for Anything with Pharoahnic connotations, I'm gonna stick with stuff with the kind of provenance the Meroitic amulet had. ...That's already what's taken so long in finding any other amulets or scarabs. Still wanting something, anyway, to represent the 18th (19th? ok ...I <i>guess</i>) and/or the 25th Dynasties.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4848951, member: 110504"]...Woops, over the last couple of days, I saw '[SIZE=4]A coin's fall from the Graces. Post of Shame,' and other threads, linking to a very good thread on Forvm Ancient Coins. To all appearances, the attribution was an exercise in wishful thinking from the beginning. And dealers ran with it ...and ran, and ran. Fortunately, Frank Robinson reiterated the fact that he accepts returns --although he already sent the coin; kind of the downside of his penchant for sending stuff 'on approval,' since the Paypal hadn't cleared. ...Whew. That was money I didn't have to throw away. From now on, for Anything with Pharoahnic connotations, I'm gonna stick with stuff with the kind of provenance the Meroitic amulet had. ...That's already what's taken so long in finding any other amulets or scarabs. Still wanting something, anyway, to represent the 18th (19th? ok ...I [I]guess[/I]) and/or the 25th Dynasties.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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