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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 3026375, member: 39084&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t be so quick to characterize the person who is conned as being greedy.&nbsp; If you&#039;re a newcomer to ancient coins, you typically have no frame of reference for whether or not a coin&#039;s asking price is a good value, and especially if the coin looks attractive to your eye, you&#039;re more likely to make an impulse buy without doing any research or asking for advice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Surely there are some buyers who believe they&#039;re getting something for nothing, and there is a segment of buyers who are greedy and think they&#039;re taking advantage of the seller&#039;s <font size="4">naïveté </font>or stupidity.&nbsp; But I&#039;ll bet these latter buyers are well outnumbered by the gullible, inexperienced newcomers who are successfully conned by the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a broader note, I&#039;m continually bewildered by how easy it is to con the general public into believing things that are simply not true, or highly unlikely to be true; current politics is the best example of this phenomenon.&nbsp; It&#039;s unfortunate that so many people lack the ability or patience to think critically, especially with the Internet as a resource, but con men rely on their personal ability to make absurd assertions that are unquestioningly accepted by their audience, and bogus ancient coin sellers are no different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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