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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2730264, member: 14873&quot;]I don&#039;t like to keep mentioning my &quot;old fogey&quot; status, but this post brought a realization to me that I probably have several bogus or fake coins in my collection. I have a number of coins that I bought over fifty years ago, maybe some over sixty, in the days before the internet or big coin conventions -- when ancient coins were mostly purchased at coin shops or infrequent coin shows, or personally traded with fellow collectors where you could examine coins &quot;in hand&quot;. I don&#039;t recall fakery being an issue then -- I believed sellers implicitly when they proclaimed coins genuine. In my own innocence I undoubtedly purchased several fakes (although I don&#039;t believe any of the collectors or dealers I associated with then would have deliberately sold me a bogus coin). I was not a particularly astute or knowledgeable collector then -- nor am I now --&nbsp; so I am sure I accidentally made some bad purchases.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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