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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ab initio, post: 3980957, member: 80317&quot;]Why should I feel guilty? They are generalists and I am a specialist. I can only distinguish fakes of certain areas. A museum curator who is responsible for the whole range of Ancient Coinages cannot be expected to be able to distinguish a very well made forgery bequeathed or sold to the Museum under circumstances that give no reason to doubt it. Also, some dealers, by necessity generalists themselves, who are too sure of their &quot;eye&quot; or have no time to check their consignments more thoroughly, sometimes offer in their auctions either well documented fakes like Caprara, Becker and Christodoulos or, other, more dangerous, unrecorded ones. The really difficult part of the game is to be able to acquire these coins for one&#039;s own collection of forgeries. And I am sure the reasons for which the owners do not want to part with them are obvious to all of us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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