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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2523050, member: 19463&quot;]Over the years I have bought fourrees as solid and solids as fourree from dealers who should know better.&nbsp; One was a &#039;fourree&#039; Vespasian denarius which NFA failed to note was just encrusted from being hoarded with copper coins.&nbsp; The copper cleaned right off.&nbsp; In their defense, NFA had little experience with cheap coins or fourrees and rarely had one in their lowest level sales (mail bids).&nbsp; I have seen a coin in NGC slab marked fourree which I was convinced was solid but it sold way over my head so I could not prove it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I hate to hear this. Your error was not buying an unslabbed coin but buying from an unsafe source.&nbsp; If you dabble (meaning have no intention of learning about coins) it is especially important to buy from a good source.&nbsp; I&#039;d MUCH rather have a raw coin sold by CNG, Harlan Berk or any of a hundred other honest and knowledgable dealers (including some who post here) than a piece of plastic from an unknown source.&nbsp; There are fake slabs.&nbsp; There are errors (very rarely NGC).&nbsp; There are slabs that have been opened and resealed (you can tell if you look - do you?).&nbsp; Be a belt and suspenders kind of collector.&nbsp; Buy coins from good sources whether or not they are encapsulated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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