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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7600509, member: 110350&quot;]First, I&#039;m glad to see this auction at all, given that at the time of the previous one he said it might be his last, especially if prices continued to increase the way they have, making it impossible for him to buy new inventory he can offer at reasonable prices. And I do think that in general the start prices may be a bit higher than in his other auctions in the last few years.</p><p><br /></p><p>FSR&#039;s selling of copies in general doesn&#039;t particularly bother me, given that he always discloses that fact up front in all caps. I don&#039;t think the percentage is any higher than usual. I do think it might be preferable if instead of using a fairly innocuous term like &quot;copy,&quot; and not mentioning whether they are ancient or modern, he called them what most of them presumably are -- &quot;MODERN FAKES.&quot; It also makes me slightly uncomfortable that the way he sometimes mentions how deceptive they are comes across almost as a selling tool. See, for example, Lot 113, the Marc Antony legionary denarius he describes as &quot;very deceptive.&quot; (This is not the same legionary denarius he sold me as genuine last year, which turned out to be fake; see <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/did-anyone-buy-anything-in-the-latest-frank-robinson-auction.366104/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/did-anyone-buy-anything-in-the-latest-frank-robinson-auction.366104/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/did-anyone-buy-anything-in-the-latest-frank-robinson-auction.366104/</a>. He accepted a return without question or delay.) See also Lot 166, a Balbinus ant. which FSR describes as a copy, probably plated -- and goes on to say, &quot;pretty good looking, could fool a lot of people.&quot; Now, why phrase it that way, so it sounds like a positive attribute?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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