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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2075935, member: 19463&quot;]cointalk.com/forums/ancients/</p><p><a href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=139809" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=139809" rel="nofollow">http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=139809</a></p><p><a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/image...taiacomp.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I can not see any reason to make this your first ancient coin one that is as often faked as this but I will not go so far as to say definitively that this one is fake.&nbsp; I would not buy it for reasons spelled out in the above links.&nbsp; The fakes we have been seeing were struck from fake dies so they have no signs of casting that some people consider signs of a coin being fake.&nbsp; You said the coin was from a well known seller.&nbsp; If that seller is well known as an expert in ancient Greek coins (Barry Murphy!), fine.&nbsp; If that seller is well known as a mass marketer of junk, run!&nbsp; A dealer who sells a million modern coins each week is no place to buy ancients.&nbsp; Neither are sellers who appear on the fake sellers lists online.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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