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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3227135, member: 19463&quot;]Since i was a gift you are out nothing.&nbsp; You do gain the education of the situation if you choose to take the opportunity.&nbsp; Examine the coin and figure out why the people here who saw it were so certain it is a fake.&nbsp; Save that tag and the coin as part of a collection that includes early mistakes.&nbsp; Most of us had to pay money for ours. </p><p><br /></p><p>One thing to learn here is that coins of the high rollers of history are more likely to be fake than coins of the common and cheap people.&nbsp; I have trouble understanding beginners who feel pressured to buy rare coins as their first coins but we here on CT have regularly been shown coins of Otho, Pertinax and Didius level rulers by people who did not have a Constantine, Septimius or Trajan (to pick on three common guys).&nbsp; I can&#039;t blame you for the Didius since you did not select it but the Gordian is a much more appropriate beginner coin and a real one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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