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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2674753, member: 80804&quot;]Like many who come to the hobby via the internet, you seem to have developed a viewpoint fearful that the market is absolutely flooded with fakes. This is easy enough to understand because people asking for confirmation of a piece&#039;s authenticity and/or status as a modern copy are tremendously over-represented on-line - the articles and letters you read here have been self-selecting for modern copies and the fear thereof as an extensively and often visited subject. (ie: people who are satisfied and happy with their coins, confident they are not fakes, write asking for information so much less than those who have been &quot;sold on fear&quot;) It simply is not the case that there are lots and lots of dangerous fakes everywhere. The VAST majority of coins available from all sources (even on ebay, to a somewhat lesser extent) are authentic.&nbsp; As was pointed out, you&#039;re looking at Vcoins dealers who are held to a high standard of business practices.&nbsp; If, somehow, a modern copy of an ancient coin had passed one of these highly professional dealers, they guarantee to stand behind their merchandise on an open-ended basis - &quot;guaranteed for life&quot;.</p><p>If you&#039;re just starting out, however, you probably want to &quot;cut your teeth&quot; on some of the more common types which are seldom to never faked rather than starting out with the higher-end, scarcer and more widely pursued types.&nbsp; That way you can get a feeling for what unquestionably genuine ancient coins look and feel like, and begin getting your eye in on style before you begin spending more serious amounts on those higher-end types which are far more tempting subjects for the modern faker.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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