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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2719280, member: 19463&quot;]The signs of a fake that are most helpful are not the same for modern gold and ancient bronzes.&nbsp; The fact that a person is &#039;expert&#039; in one means nothing in the other.&nbsp; In this case the big problem is that were were shown multiple coins with identical centering, flaws and dies.&nbsp; Modern coins produced from mechanically reduced dies and struck perfectly most of the time require more reliance on other characteristics which can be masked by the cleaning that all ancients are expected to have.&nbsp; I&#039;m no expert here but the point is when I want to avoid a health problem, I don&#039;t go to a urologist for a toothache.&nbsp; I am glad that the seller and his expert were good people but the fact remains that you should limit buying a Pertinax sestertius to sellers who have seen them before.&nbsp; The troubling matter here, to me anyway, is that we have not heard from the ancient specialist dealers who handled the other coins involved in this match. Was this an error or is there more to this story?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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