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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3696146, member: 56859&quot;]I agree with Sev.&nbsp; Those are pretty harsh words, Ras, and it&#039;s not like you&#039;re a newbie who was suckered into buying a very questionable coin.&nbsp; You knew it looked off but were hoping for a big score and made a contingency plan for recouping your money should it be the fake you thought it was.&nbsp; I agree though that he should take it back. </p><p><br /></p><p>Given your sense of right and wrong, perhaps you&#039;d agree that I should similarly call out the person who sold me these &quot;uncleaned&quot; coins when I first started collecting.&nbsp; I was just getting into ancient coins and thought it would be fun and educational to clean some uncleaned coins and then identify them.&nbsp; I bought a sampling of coins from a range of offerings by a particular seller, mostly various Roman coins but I also splurged and shelled out $24 for two &quot;uncleaned Greek&quot; coins.&nbsp; Here they are, in their arrival state:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coincommunity.com%2Fforum%2Fuploaded%2FThisIsFun%2F20130508_UCd-composite.jpg&amp;hash=6a6ae8ada0d6c97aaa04c1a765c97435" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These two $12 &quot;Greek&quot; coins were chosen by the seller to send to me.&nbsp; They are clearly slugs, clean enough to eat off of, and clearly with no detailed left to be uncovered.&nbsp;&nbsp; How can it even be said they are Greek?&nbsp; The rest of the coins I bought from this seller were hardly better and almost all had clearly been cleaned and sorted into the &quot;this is unsalvageable junk&quot; pile.</p><p><br /></p><p>I felt like such a sucker.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately I learned my lesson and moved on to better things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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