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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3377926, member: 19463"]I have issues with this concept. To me, the only question here is whether the item in question existed in a time before, lets say, 300 AD and was made to support/finance a usurpation. The ruler does not have to be a winner for the coin to be genuine, official (issued by the man on the coin) and collectible. On he other hand, if the item was made in the 14th century to salve the ego of a collector who wanted all thirty 'tyrants' whether or not that collector knew the coin was 'modern', it is now a relic of the history of coin collecting rather like the Paduan medallions. It still is collectible but not official or ancient. I have no issue with people for whom price is no object spending $50k for a toy with more questions than certainty. If they don't know enough to decide how to spend their money it is not my place to intervene. Was there a Proculus? Did he issue coins? Is this one of them? I don't know. Will we find a treasure chest with 100,000 of them under unquestionable circumstances? Then, will I be in the market for one? I am not worried about that one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3377926, member: 19463"]I have issues with this concept. To me, the only question here is whether the item in question existed in a time before, lets say, 300 AD and was made to support/finance a usurpation. The ruler does not have to be a winner for the coin to be genuine, official (issued by the man on the coin) and collectible. On he other hand, if the item was made in the 14th century to salve the ego of a collector who wanted all thirty 'tyrants' whether or not that collector knew the coin was 'modern', it is now a relic of the history of coin collecting rather like the Paduan medallions. It still is collectible but not official or ancient. I have no issue with people for whom price is no object spending $50k for a toy with more questions than certainty. If they don't know enough to decide how to spend their money it is not my place to intervene. Was there a Proculus? Did he issue coins? Is this one of them? I don't know. Will we find a treasure chest with 100,000 of them under unquestionable circumstances? Then, will I be in the market for one? I am not worried about that one.[/QUOTE]
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