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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lolli, post: 3535244, member: 96900&quot;]My name is meangless!</p><p>I am only an amateur collector and autistic, that is very helpful if it comes to ancient coins because I can see very reliable if something is wrong with a coin because it hurts me and in my brain is burnt how authentic and how fake coins look like and their characteristics but in other cases it is not really helpful and even bad to be autistic. If it comes to authentication important are experience, knowledge and talent. I have only talent this is why I can never ever be the best or one of the best, because some other have talent too + knowledge and experience. And I lost much money with fakes and some even sold me fakes when I was a child and no matter what collected stamps, coins ancient articacts there were always fakes and I lost money and I did not get my money back of course so I REALLY hate fakes. i stopped collecting but later started again collecting coins but I tried to become so good that I would never ever be burnt again.</p><p><br /></p><p>@ Barry Murphy</p><p><br /></p><p>Festa here</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=476718" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=476718" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=476718</a></p><p>NGC graded About Uncirculated and sold as authetnic</p><p><br /></p><p>Resold as fake</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=359374" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=359374" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=359374</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tryphon (withdrawn, published fake, legend error), Agathokles (IAPN condemned), Claigula (admited to be fake by him), Ptolemy V (withdrawn).</p><p>Threads for fakes except for Fest are in Forvm-</p><p>Enough? I am not sure about the Seleukos (at least imho suspicious and die linked coins including mine were IBSCC condemned).</p><p>Can add links if Barry Murphy is requesting them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barry Murphy at the beginnin I really admired you and thought you would be the best I even bought from your vcoin store (but it was not because of you, the coins were just pretty good for a good price^^). But because I liked and admired you I looked in your store and found some coins I liked and bought. I do buy the coins and not the dealer <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And some of your post at cfdl and ancients.info were really great and educational so I really liked and admired you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you wrote (do not know where) that you are in your opinion better than Sear and you were acting imho pretty arogant and I really hate if someone is making himself bigger than others and doing like he is the best, I see this as a challenge to look for NGC slabbed fakes and I found some.</p><p>I would have never ever looked for NGC slabbed fakes if you would not have said this about Sear, which was imho not nice,</p><p>not sure if you are actually better than Sear (I can not tell) but if you are better show it with deeds and not with words.</p><p>I do really like Sear and respect him even if he is not perfect but he is a good guy and very good if it comes to authentication of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead of telling</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;that of the top 5 experts in the world on ancient coin forgery, I think 2 of them work at NGC.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>show how good you are with deeds, for example by detecting really high quality fake I am not able to detect so I and others can learn something.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be for example impressed if you would be able to detect and condemn coins sold by Nomos ( their experts are really good if it comes to fakes).</p><p><br /></p><p>To know that a coin is authentic or fake is not that hard but to prove it can be in some cases very very difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have in most cases the problem that I do know that a coin is fake but to prove it is really really difficult, die studies, knowledge about issue could be required time and money consuming and not worth it in most cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other Balas at current Goldberg auction seems to be fake too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Published transfer die fake, damaged ear (hole), which is present on all fakes but not on authentic coins form these dies.</p><p>Different reverse die as on the published transfer die fakes but same obverse die. Defects and soapy details, obverse has a tendancy to be concave, look rather pressed than struck ...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sixbid.com/de/ira-and-larry-goldberg-coins-and-collectibles/6088/ancient-coins/5105336/greek-coins?term&amp;orderCol=lot_number&amp;orderDirection=asc&amp;priceFrom&amp;page=1&amp;limit=50&amp;displayMode=large" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid.com/de/ira-and-larry-goldberg-coins-and-collectibles/6088/ancient-coins/5105336/greek-coins?term&amp;orderCol=lot_number&amp;orderDirection=asc&amp;priceFrom&amp;page=1&amp;limit=50&amp;displayMode=large" rel="nofollow">https://www.sixbid.com/de/ira-and-larry-goldberg-coins-and-collectibles/6088/ancient-coins/5105336/greek-coins?term&amp;orderCol=lot_number&amp;orderDirection=asc&amp;priceFrom&amp;page=1&amp;limit=50&amp;displayMode=large</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=HdmjjN7vkxI=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=HdmjjN7vkxI=" rel="nofollow">http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=HdmjjN7vkxI=</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=ov8fd8izW0Y=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=ov8fd8izW0Y=" rel="nofollow">http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=ov8fd8izW0Y=</a></p><p><br /></p><p>To find normal fakes is not anything special, I am only impressed if someone can condemn high quality fake I could not condemn myself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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