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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3664859, member: 101855"]This denarius of Geta was the first ancient coin I bought back in high school. I bought it as part of paper I wrote back then, which is long since gone. I paid $10 for it at the Gimbels Department Store coin counter in Philadelphia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]985467[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]985468[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Peter Rosa got to rip me off too. Back in the 1990s I knew a retired Florida dealer who was selling off his inventory in "slow motion." He would show up at the FUN show and sell is tokens to Steve Tannenbaum and Steve Hayden. I took part of a table with them at that time. He had many wonderful things, I got some good tokens from him. At one point he showed up with two and half rolls (50 coins per roll) of this Lincoln Civil War Token. It is the most common Lincoln token from the Civil War years, but to have well 100 of them was pretty impressive.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]985472[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]985473[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I continued to corrispond with this dealer after I returned to Massachusetts where I was living at the time. He had some political pieces, and sold an example of this Lincoln variety to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]985476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]985478[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The piece was in white metal, and it had "BECKER" on the reverse. I didn't know what that was about until I learned at coin club meeting. (The dealer didn't know either, so he was not dishonest about it.) The members were talking about famous counterfeiters, and it hit me what this was.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case Rosa had signed his work with the the word "BECKER", and I had been too ignorant to catch it. I sold the thing back to the dealer for a $100 loss. I chalked that $100 up to my education fund. I've contributed to that fund through the years when I have gotten stuck.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for posting your story![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3664859, member: 101855"]This denarius of Geta was the first ancient coin I bought back in high school. I bought it as part of paper I wrote back then, which is long since gone. I paid $10 for it at the Gimbels Department Store coin counter in Philadelphia. [ATTACH=full]985467[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]985468[/ATTACH] Peter Rosa got to rip me off too. Back in the 1990s I knew a retired Florida dealer who was selling off his inventory in "slow motion." He would show up at the FUN show and sell is tokens to Steve Tannenbaum and Steve Hayden. I took part of a table with them at that time. He had many wonderful things, I got some good tokens from him. At one point he showed up with two and half rolls (50 coins per roll) of this Lincoln Civil War Token. It is the most common Lincoln token from the Civil War years, but to have well 100 of them was pretty impressive. [ATTACH=full]985472[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]985473[/ATTACH] I continued to corrispond with this dealer after I returned to Massachusetts where I was living at the time. He had some political pieces, and sold an example of this Lincoln variety to me. [ATTACH=full]985476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]985478[/ATTACH] The piece was in white metal, and it had "BECKER" on the reverse. I didn't know what that was about until I learned at coin club meeting. (The dealer didn't know either, so he was not dishonest about it.) The members were talking about famous counterfeiters, and it hit me what this was. In this case Rosa had signed his work with the the word "BECKER", and I had been too ignorant to catch it. I sold the thing back to the dealer for a $100 loss. I chalked that $100 up to my education fund. I've contributed to that fund through the years when I have gotten stuck. Thanks for posting your story![/QUOTE]
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