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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 20100, member: 57463&quot;]OK, we all need usernames.&nbsp; You can do a Google on M MAROTTA NUMISMATICS and get enough hits to figure out which of my cousins</p><p>this Mike Marotta is.&nbsp; Who is Andy107?</p><p><br /></p><p>That is the problem with eBay: anonymity.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, these are the guys who own CIVITAS, just one of about 25 dealers on the VCOINS &quot;ring.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Benjamin R. Bell studied coins throughout the last 21 years, during which time he interned at the ANA museum and catalogued for 3 years at Classical Numismatic Group in Lancaster, PA. He holds an M.A. from the University of London, where he produced a dissertation on Eastern imitations of the Venetian ducat in the British Museum. Bell is an A.N.A. member whose collecting interests include medieval imitative gold and classic stamps of the Indian Princely States.</p><p><br /></p><p>Joshua Moran has been collecting coins for the past 15 years. After receiving a B.A. in Anthropology from Beloit College, he participated in two field seasons of excavation on an Etruscan archaeological site in Italy and has been involved with contract archaeology in the U.S. Moran is an A.N.A. member whose collecting interests include Roman Republican, Roman Imperial and United States variety coinage.</p><p>----------------</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, Ben and Josh are real people.&nbsp; Even though they do a lot of business electronically, they do so as real people.&nbsp; That builds trust.</p><p>More to the point, they specifically cite trusted partners: The Classical Numismatic Group and the ANA museum and Beloit college.</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you get when you click on a seller&#039;s username on eBay?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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