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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 26079201, member: 134416&quot;]I&#039;ve been pretty good about avoiding coins with BD, ever since the Great BD Outbreak of 2000.&nbsp; None of my coins from him have gone sour.&nbsp; I generally avoid stripped coins, and I&#039;ve learned something that 1998 me didn&#039;t understand; I also avoid coins with purplish spots. It&#039;s also rare that I handle my coins.&nbsp; In the flip they go and that&#039;s generally the last I touch them. </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s two main suspects for that outbreak, and both had fried, dry surfaces.&nbsp; The Trajan also had purple patches.</p><p><br /></p><p>He and Marc B were my main go-to dealers from about 2009-2012 (I didn&#039;t collect much from 2012-22).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m fairly sure the outcome of this won&#039;t be too scary.&nbsp; Worse comes to worse, I&#039;ll have to send it.&nbsp; A partial refund is my preferred outcome.&nbsp; The coin would likely just come back from the next person, as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My minor lesson is learned; try not to buy on the phone, and if I do, make it something that I have expertise in.&nbsp; I never cared much about the women of Rome until recently so I never studied them.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t notice a subtle difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>That was a pretty extraordinary circumstance for me, though.&nbsp; There wasn&#039;t too much time to react.&nbsp; If the price had been higher, I would have waited until I got home.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also much easier to get a quick response from him.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t at all surprised when I got an unhelpful response (from a different dealer) when the Nero broke.&nbsp; The rare times I had needed communication, it was like pulling teeth and service had usually been pretty slow.&nbsp; I never did get any satisfaction from that and ate $80.&nbsp; Lovely coins there, but it wasn&#039;t worth it for me to order any more.&nbsp; I did order only once more, no problems, but it was something for which I was fairly desperate for. The inexplicable change to the floppy mailer and no real bracing is what got me.&nbsp; Like Nancy Kerrigan said, &quot;Why????&quot;&nbsp; Before that the coins were sent properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of BD, I had purchased a plague face Justinian with a really nice patina, from the Nero dealer.&nbsp; Some stuff on the edge gave me pause whether it&#039;s BD or not.&nbsp; I&#039;ve kept it separate and there haven&#039;t been any changes since I bought it.&nbsp; The green also isn&#039;t neon green, there&#039;s just some green patches lighter than the dark green patina, where the main patina has chipped off.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still very happy with the lovely Magnus Maximus siliqua and the Otho tet, respectively, from the Scantilla dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>It wouldn&#039;t be worth the reputational risk over an el-cheapo $127 coin, especially with the great likelihood of it being called out on a coin board.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure that the misattribution wasn&#039;t nefarious.&nbsp; There&#039;s still a reservoir of 15+ years of good will.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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