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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2486669, member: 19463&quot;]I believe you will find there have been advances in faking modern coins that makes that less certain than it once was.&nbsp; Of course I don&#039;t know since I don&#039;t collect modern coins.&nbsp; The problem here is we are asked to work from photos including some really bad photos.&nbsp; There are very few towns with five coin shops that employ anyone whose opinion on ancients approach &#039;expert&#039; but many that have no problem telling you they are.&nbsp; We recently had a post from someone whose local dealer claimed affiliation with NGC ancients as I recall when their affiliation was that they knew how to mail off coins to be graded.&nbsp; The biggest problem with ancients is that there are so many more types that no single person has seen them all and it is really hard to be expert in something you have never seen.&nbsp; There is a big difference between being 99.9% certain of an answer and being certain.&nbsp; Issuing guarantees on something worth $100,000 when you are only 99.9% certain would not be a great business model.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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