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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1851888, member: 26302&quot;]I had a similar experience actually. Really local auction house, with no coin knowledge. I took the education route. I showed them pics in the book of real coins, and showed them how theirs was not the same. Didn&#039;t work on the clerk. Tried it on the auctioneer, he wasn&#039;t interested. Since I was POSITIVE it was fake, I then told the auctioneer I had no choice since I was a member of the ANA, (wink wink), but to go to the local police department and swear out a complaint of counterfeiting against the auction house and have the local police notify the Secret Service. This got them to pull the item, and I didn&#039;t see further fakes later. Would I have done it if they had called my bluff? IDK, but it worked. I would reiterate as others have said though. You need to be SURE its fake. They kind of looked at me sideways for a few months, but didn&#039;t stop me from bidding. After a while it was forgotten. Like you, I just wanted to be able to still participate, but also stop the spread of fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually had another instance of fake ancients in a local coin only auction. I told the owner they were fake, showed him why I knew they were, (really bad cast fakes), and he never pulled them or mentioned they were fakes. That was the last time I ever had dealings with that dealer. It wasn&#039;t easy either, since he became the state coin association president, and is to this day the largest coin dealer in a good sized city. Just proves size and success does not prove integrity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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