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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2226829, member: 19463&quot;]The tetradrachm has not closed yet.&nbsp; Some one will buy it figuring that a 1% chance of getting a $500 coin for $5 makes sense and they will sell it to someone one twice as foolish for $10.&nbsp; There is not a 1% chance of the thing being real but there seems no end to people willing to throw money away.&nbsp; Just as a matter of record, buying ancient coins from a seller who has sharp photos of stamps and fuzzy pictures of round things that might be coins is not the way to build a collection.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People who cheat beginners are in the business for the short haul.&nbsp; They do not plan on cheating the same people over and over but they do know there will be a new set of customers born every minute so there is no problem.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are dealers who have sold me coins with some regularity for decades.&nbsp; Either they sell good coins or I am a very slow learner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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