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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3233488, member: 19463&quot;]Run away.&nbsp; Terrible fakes.&nbsp; If you refuse to listen to the advice given here so often to so many you are wasting our time and ours.&nbsp; Buy coins from sources you have reason to trust.&nbsp; Either know the seller or know the coin.&nbsp; That Athens is below tourist grade fake.&nbsp; I really suggest going back and reviewing a hundred or so Coin Talk posts asking about fakes and seeing what advice keeps coming up.&nbsp; I regret that we have a few people here who hold out hope that such coins might be OK because they don&#039;t know anthing but want to welcome you to the group. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not know the specific details on #18 but I would suspect it was part of a replica set issued with a card identifying the items.&nbsp; It is better than the other but not worth buying at any price unless you are building a &#039;Black Museum&#039; collection of fakes. There are people who study such matters but I&#039;m not sure we have any here now that could say the coin was one given as a premium with petrol in 1950 bu XYZ Oil corp.&nbsp; What we can tell you is that $100 each is about $200 too much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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