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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2128473, member: 19463&quot;]We try too hard to make things look possibly good when it it obvious that they are not.&nbsp; This week there was a coin on eBay that attracted my attention.&nbsp; </p><p>(You can search for the sale if you wish - I will not be advertising for this guy.)</p><p>While identified as Septimius Severus and selling for the correct Septimius price of $41, it was a cast fake from a genuine Pescennius Niger.&nbsp; The seller is on the published fake seller lists and his other coins look pretty obvious fake - mostly diestruck from modern dies but this one was of correct style.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Looking over the bunch he sold recently, the most obvious is another &#039;Septimius Severus&#039; which went for $36.&nbsp; It was clearly a Divus Pertinax.&nbsp;&nbsp; You will find it on the fake lists since it is not a cast but from known fake dies.&nbsp; If real in that grade, $3600 would be closer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the trick here is to make the bidder think that the seller had misidentified a rare coin and it might be bought for a Septimius price.&nbsp; I know there are those who figure that a chance of getting something for next to nothing is worth a tenth the price of a good one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone really looked at those two coins and believed that they are Septimius Severus and genuine, I&#039;d be very surprised.&nbsp; Someone would have bid higher if they really thought they were genuine Pescennius Niger and Divus Pertinax.&nbsp; If the coins actually sold (not a shill), they will probably be resold to someone else who knows less.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After you determine that a seller is on the fake seller lists or that a substantial enough number of his offerings are fakes so he belongs on the lists,&nbsp; stop looking at his other offerings.&nbsp; Nothing said, no evidence presented, offsets their being known sellers of fakes.&nbsp; Even if they did have a real coin, do you really want to send them your money.&nbsp; If you want a fake, buy it from someone who is selling it as a fake.&nbsp;&nbsp; I really would like to have had that cast Pescennius Niger for my &#039;Black Museum&#039;.&nbsp; It started at $2.25 + $10 postage.&nbsp; I wonder if the winner received the coin shown in the photo?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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