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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2729980, member: 80783&quot;]Well, this is the FOURTH time this has happened to me within ONE year! At least I got my money back in the first three cases and hope to do so this time also (the seller wants do do his own examinations before). But if it wasn´t for the internet and especially this (and the German) forums and the help of C.Clay and D.Sear, I would have never known. I only started collecting recently, but ALL of the coins and/or identical casts had been sold by major auction companies as genuine without them having noticed them actually being forgeries.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>All my cases concerned large Roman Bronzes (Otacilia Severa Medallion, Drusus Sestertius, Pertinax Sestertius, and now Pupienus) in the price range of around 300 to 650 USD. </p><p>There seems to be no real market for cast medium Roman Bronzes and most fake ancient silver coins are likely to be more obvious by their &quot;Bulgarian&quot; styles.</p><p>So the Serstertii that I preferably collect must be the most &quot;endangered species&quot; out there when it comes to the risk of forgery, and that since the 16th Century.</p><p>Nobody has a reason to duplicate average coins of Antoninus Pius or Phillip the Arab, but the problem becomes obvious once you have all the &quot;common&quot; faces and start to venture into the &quot;rarer&quot; portraits (I had promised myself never to spend more than 100 USD on a coin, but didn´t we all once?).</p><p><br /></p><p>At least the four other Sestertii I sent to Sear passed the test and nobody has expressed doubts about my Gordian I and Macrinus (yet), which were my most precious purchases so far (and hopefully will remain so) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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