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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25356560, member: 10461&quot;]I am supposedly a descendant of John Adams, and John Quincy Adams was a coin collector, mostly of Ancients, but of World coins as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I briefly owned a Roman Republican denarius with the JQA family pedigree which had sold with that collection in the Massachusetts Historical Society sale in 1971.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1621997[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I later returned it to CNG, from whom I’d bought it. The pedigree was real, but the coin was not. It turned out to be a fourreé- an ancient counterfeit. So yes, it was really from John Quincy Adams’ family collection, and yes, it was legitimately ancient, but as a fourreé, worth less than what I’d paid for it in the CNG auction where they failed to note that. (They quickly made good, with no questions asked, when I returned it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I want another, <i>better</i> JQA-pedigreed ancient, and have a couple on my radar. They turn up every once in a while.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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