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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2486638, member: 80121&quot;]I have been collecting coins since I was a teenage paperboy (I&#039;m now retired), and I find ancient coins to be the most frustrating coins. It always seems to be the same question, &quot;Is it real&quot;, and in all my years I&#039;ve never met anyone who could answer that question with any definite certainty. As was pointed out to me in a previous post, even NGC Ancients puts up a disclaimer that states basically if they certify an ancient as authentic and it turns out to be counterfeit they will have no liability for their certification.</p><p><br /></p><p>I firmly believe that no two &quot;experts&quot; will agree on whether an ancient is authentic unless it is an obvious and poorly done fake. I&#039;m having a problem trying to work out if a Attica Athens AR Tetradrachm Athena and Owl 440-404 BC is authentic. I bought it from a fellow club member who assured me it was authentic, but he gave me a price that was low for the quality of the coin. I took it to a coin dealer friend and he said it looked good, but when he put it under his microscope he saw a few small bubbles which concerned him. I took it to another coin dealer friend and he said it was authentic without a doubt. I brought it to a third coin dealer friend (we have 5 coin shops in town) and he looked it over and said he couldn&#039;t be sure (I think he gave the best answer). I was going to send it to NGC Ancients for certification when as I said earlier, it was pointed out that they don&#039;t guarantee their certification either.</p><p><br /></p><p>My final opinion? I don&#039;t think anyone can say, without a doubt, that an ancient is authentic. You can go by all the indicators, do all the research, but if it&#039;s fake and made by someone who really knows what they&#039;re doing, you just can&#039;t tell.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]525599[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]525601[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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