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<p>[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3302379, member: 77704"]But there are always times when everything you believe turns out to be false.</p><p>Most fakes look FAKE. Most of the time when the price seems to good to be true, like the collector who posted about getting a Balbinus aureus for a couple of thousand.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":inpain:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>However, when you see a coin like that Ahenobarbus Aureus in NFA (at the time the most prestigous ancient auction site) offer that at a veeery high estimate. All the numbers added up/ famous auction house/ high dollar coin that looked 100 percent geniune.....I am sure everyone on this forum would have been fooled by that example. There are some very skilled artisans, too bad they do not work for the modern day mints, since they are not producing great looking coins these days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3302379, member: 77704"]But there are always times when everything you believe turns out to be false. Most fakes look FAKE. Most of the time when the price seems to good to be true, like the collector who posted about getting a Balbinus aureus for a couple of thousand.:inpain: However, when you see a coin like that Ahenobarbus Aureus in NFA (at the time the most prestigous ancient auction site) offer that at a veeery high estimate. All the numbers added up/ famous auction house/ high dollar coin that looked 100 percent geniune.....I am sure everyone on this forum would have been fooled by that example. There are some very skilled artisans, too bad they do not work for the modern day mints, since they are not producing great looking coins these days.[/QUOTE]
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