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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3702290, member: 99456&quot;]A point of view: there has always been a financial incentive, and there have always been fakes e.g ancient fourre&#039;s.&nbsp; There is also finacial incentive for technologies and market services to change rapidly.&nbsp; It takes expertise to differentiate between authentic and real, bad value and good value.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is true not only for coins, but for things like diamonds, and stock investments.</p><p><br /></p><p>As technology changes there will be both new technology and new services provided by experts.&nbsp; Although they are not all or only relevant to authentication and provenance, services like NCG Ancients authentication, technologies like ACS image search and Ex-Numis for provenance, metal analysis, and many others are changing and evolving at an amazing rate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As long as collectors value expertise the hobby will remain fun and interesting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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