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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3093110, member: 19463&quot;]We all make occasional mistakes but fakes tend to travel in like company so finding three together would suggest the source was not to be used again.&nbsp; In any transaction, one of the two parties needs to be at least knowledgeable to a degree and honest to a fault.&nbsp;&nbsp; Beginners object to having to pay more for the services of &#039;full service&#039; dealers but bargain shopping from uncertain sources does not always turn out to be such a bargain.&nbsp;&nbsp; That is why some of us suggest beginners start with lesser coins and work up to rarities after gaining some experience.&nbsp; I do not know enough about ancient Chinese pieces to buy them from anyone so I&#039;m risking less buying cash of the Northern Song before jumping headlong into rarities.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if that will help in time (decades of study in the case of Chinese?) or not but I can say that a good feeling about the Vespasian and Nero in hand makes sense before going for the Otho and Vitellius.&nbsp; We all want to be able to trust our own judgments to some degree.&nbsp; The hard part is being honest on what we know and what we think we might know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Return what can be returned and learn from past mistakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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