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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3102333, member: 74282&quot;]In response to the original question, I have to agree with [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] that at the end of the day you are in no way wrong for using specialized knowledge to come out on the better side of deals. Full stop.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve done it several times and I&#039;ll be honest, it&#039;s the only way I could possibly afford to build the collection I currently have. For me the question is not hypothetical at all, my avatar coin was a similar case where I knew what I was looking at AND was able to convince myself with bad eBay pictures of an uncleaned coin that tit was authentic. I did my homework and put hundreds of hours of study into Roman Republic coins to get to the point where I could quickly gauge authenticity and verify that I&#039;d correctly ID&#039;d this particular coin within minutes and convince myself to buy it. If the seller had done his homework he probably could have got far more money for the coin but at the end of the day he didn&#039;t and we reached a price that day that we were both happy with. If the seller comes across this post he might suddenly be less happy with the price we agreed to but that&#039;s the price of not knowing what you&#039;ve got and our hobby is one that rewards those who do their homework and doesn&#039;t work out terribly well for those who don&#039;t. I really don&#039;t care who the seller is, if they aren&#039;t willing to do their homework and figure out the value of their coins it&#039;s not my place to do that for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin in question:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]785305[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>For comparison, this example is the best example I&#039;ve ever seen sell at public auction(NAC 61, October 5-6 2011, lot 467). My example was less than a fifth of the price and has, in my opinion, far superior style and is in much better condition:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]785312[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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