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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RomanGreekCoin3, post: 3135068, member: 96564&quot;][ATTACH=full]800419[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A little piece of advice;Ebay is fine.&nbsp; Just use a little common sense. I buy almost everything I can on ebay. There is NO way you can ever get decent coins cheaper.Not even vcoins( which I have found that they are very overpriced alot of the time) I won an auction months ago and got a Cleopatra VII coin for just a few dollars. Try pulling that off on Vcoins!</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your statement about NGC slabbed? You couldnt be more wrong.NGC doesnt guarantee authenticity. I will repeat that:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>NGC DOES NOT GUARANTEE AUTHENTICITY</b></p><p><br /></p><p>NGC only guarantees <b>grading</b>. and even then theres no end to the debates about how they judge grading.NGC has admitted this on their site:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>“...due to the inconsistency of opinions on these matters in the marketplace, no guarantee is made or implied about the authenticity of coins graded by NGC Ancients.” </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;NGC Ancients...does not guarantee authenticity, genuineness or attribution, nor is any guarantee of these aspects implied...with ancient coins NGC Ancients will only guarantee the grade...WARNING: THIS GUARANTEE IS LIMITED TO GRADING ONLY&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I have known many people who have gotten slabbed fakes before. Even the best coin collectors/experts can get fooled from time to time.And sellers usually sell NGC slabbed coins for a lot more money than non-slabbed ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pressed counterfeit coins can be difficult to tell if not in hand, but are usually easily detected by weight and dimensions when compared to known coins. This is something you cannot do if the coin is in encased in a slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>And for a history buff like myself it defeats the purpose of owning coins to begin with. I like to actually have the coin in my hand- to hold a real piece of history. If I wanted to see coins behind glass or plastic I could go to a museum and see better ones than I own.</p><p><br /></p><p>I havent been doing this that long and even I and friends of mine have learned this the hard way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin currency has been around many centuries before Christ. Counterfeiting has been around not long after that.</p><p><br /></p><p>So please dont make the same mistake others did. I wouldn&#039;t want you to waste your money thinking slabbed coins are always genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have a good one,</p><p><br /></p><p>April[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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