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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1966986, member: 19463"]<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/AJS-Vespasian-69-79-AD-AR-Denarius-Struck-75-AD-PAX-/231302579248?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35dab54430" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/AJS-Vespasian-69-79-AD-AR-Denarius-Struck-75-AD-PAX-/231302579248?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35dab54430" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/AJS-Vespasian-69-79-AD-AR-Denarius-Struck-75-AD-PAX-/231302579248?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35dab54430</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm missing what makes the above cheap but it looks OK. I can not feel 100% certain of anything the seller has simply because he also has the one below which I doubt. He also has some Apollonia Pontikas that I avoid just because the fakes of them are so much more common than the real ones. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/AJS-Thracian-Chersonese-AR-hemidrachm-480-350-BC-Forepart-of-lion-/331286614446?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d223891ae" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/AJS-Thracian-Chersonese-AR-hemidrachm-480-350-BC-Forepart-of-lion-/331286614446?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d223891ae" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/AJS-Thracian-Chersonese-AR-hemidrachm-480-350-BC-Forepart-of-lion-/331286614446?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d223891ae</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What do others say? If the vast majority of a seller's coins appear good but we see a couple questionable items mixed in, do we buy or avoid out of fear that the dealer might not be good protection for us so we would be better off paying too much for coins with poor surfaces?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1966986, member: 19463"][url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/AJS-Vespasian-69-79-AD-AR-Denarius-Struck-75-AD-PAX-/231302579248?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35dab54430[/url] I'm missing what makes the above cheap but it looks OK. I can not feel 100% certain of anything the seller has simply because he also has the one below which I doubt. He also has some Apollonia Pontikas that I avoid just because the fakes of them are so much more common than the real ones. [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/AJS-Thracian-Chersonese-AR-hemidrachm-480-350-BC-Forepart-of-lion-/331286614446?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d223891ae[/url] What do others say? If the vast majority of a seller's coins appear good but we see a couple questionable items mixed in, do we buy or avoid out of fear that the dealer might not be good protection for us so we would be better off paying too much for coins with poor surfaces?[/QUOTE]
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