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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8183889, member: 19463&quot;]That is the point.&nbsp; Sure we might be protected from fakes by a return policy but it is a lot harder to be protected from stupidity, either ours or the seller&#039;s.&nbsp; I spent a lot of effort 20-30 years ago showing dealer/friends at shows how to distinguish mints of the Severan period.&nbsp; Most said thanks. I don&#039;t know what happened to the guy at Baltimore who refused to sell the coin to me but whatever I lost was offset by the compliment it entailed.&nbsp; The only greater compliment I received was the dealer (still a friend). </p><p><br /></p><p>I still don&#039;t mind trying to help people who ask but I am tired of blind-contacting people who claim to be professional and telling them their listing is in error. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, I do appreciate the notes I get from friends who tell me of a coin in my interest area that is listed in some sale and that they believe is misidentified.&nbsp; In most cases, the difference will not make any difference since the most ignorant sellers are more inclined to overprice ordinary items than to undervalue a real sleeper.&nbsp; Coins are selling more by grade so a rarity is only likely to go high if it is also high grade.&nbsp; In the 90&#039;s I was buying almost any Eastern denarius I saw unless I already had a better one just like it.&nbsp; Those days are over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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