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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silverlock, post: 3694736, member: 98181&quot;]I came here looking for encouragement to buy, and instead got wisdom. Thanks a lot!</p><p><br /></p><p>Kidding aside, I do appreciate the thoughtful response. You’ve talked me off the ledge.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER] All three coins are all in Europe, so I have no way to examine them short of buying one. But even in hand I would never be certain. CNG had one last year, but bidding rose above my level. There shall be others, as you say.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER] Two of three dealers offer explicit lifetime guarantees, the third is implied by VCoins. I treat bad buys as expensive learning experiences; I’ve only returned one coin in a long collecting career.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] I believe most/all of the coins on Wildwind are authentic, since some of them came from sources such as CNG. The fakers copied the same die pair because that’s all they had to go on.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] I don’t know if any or all of the three coins are fakes, but I have reason to doubt authenticity. Which puts them somewhere hovering near 3 on your scale. So yea, not a smart buy. It helps to quantify the doubt. I’ve only purchased two coins for my collection this year, and got excited the drought may be over. Back to doing the coin dances...</p><p><br /></p><p>@physics-fan3-14.19165 Your post reminded me to check a source I forgot, and I found a second die pair in the British Museum collection. But just my luck it matches none of the three coins on offer.</p><p><br /></p><p>My plan at this point is to reach out to the dealers and see what more info I can glean from them. I might try to work something out with a willing dealer along the following: I will buy the coin and send it off for opinions from other pairs of eyes, with the understanding that if they aren’t 100% sure I’ll return it and the dealer will get useful information for their trouble. Or I might just return to my other collections for collecting gratification this year...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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