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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3702944, member: 72790"]To those of you who read my post at the start of this thread. I went to my local coin show this morning and showed him the info that I had gotten from the website that specializes in reporting on fake coins. He was profusely apologetic and told me that this coin had been given him by another person to sell at his table. He admitted to being somewhat uncertain about some others and asked me to take a closer look at them. One of them was a denarius of one of the Triumvirate members, not bad condition, and only a little over one hundred dollars. Quite a bargain, I told him, as were a number of other coins many of which showed obvious signs of "problems". He took them off his table right then and there. Most of the other ancients were well worn, common types and unlikely to have been phony but I am not sure what the lesson is to be learned from this but that there were problem coins out there is distressing and takes away a good deal of the pleasure collectors ought to have as opposed to angst and doubt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3702944, member: 72790"]To those of you who read my post at the start of this thread. I went to my local coin show this morning and showed him the info that I had gotten from the website that specializes in reporting on fake coins. He was profusely apologetic and told me that this coin had been given him by another person to sell at his table. He admitted to being somewhat uncertain about some others and asked me to take a closer look at them. One of them was a denarius of one of the Triumvirate members, not bad condition, and only a little over one hundred dollars. Quite a bargain, I told him, as were a number of other coins many of which showed obvious signs of "problems". He took them off his table right then and there. Most of the other ancients were well worn, common types and unlikely to have been phony but I am not sure what the lesson is to be learned from this but that there were problem coins out there is distressing and takes away a good deal of the pleasure collectors ought to have as opposed to angst and doubt.[/QUOTE]
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