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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7650275, member: 118780&quot;]I would argue one should &quot;know the coin AND know the seller.&quot; That way, you&#039;re confident both in the price you paid and whether it&#039;s genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of the provenances, in my previous reply I did verify one, and they don&#039;t look like the same coin (at least to me). Think about it: if I&#039;m aiming to fool someone spending a few bucks on a late roman coin, I can just throw the coin out there. But if I&#039;m instead planning to defraud someone of thousands of dollars, I need to make the ruse stronger.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would therefore make my fakes out of real silver/etc and die match them to some known coin. I&#039;ll choose coins that were sold at auctions some time ago because a) those auction catalogs may be difficult to find and the images vague and b) the owners of those coins are less likely to notice.</p><p><br /></p><p>The buyer then, who would have hesitated buying so pricy of a coin from an obscure auction house, will jump at a coin with a respected provenance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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