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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rasielsuarez, post: 25219231, member: 148921&quot;]Even though this area is out of my comfort zone and even though I also can&#039;t find a die match I&#039;m now convinced the design is ancient. If it&#039;s a forgery it has to be a cast and one that&#039;s clever enough to slip through Roma&#039;s checks; a firm that has a lot of experience with this series (including at least a couple dozen Macers).</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it would be a decent gesture to, at a minimum, get the rationale for condemning a coin of this caliber. With nothing else said it unfairly damages the reputation of the numismatist who ok&#039;d it over at Roma and maybe also lowers the confidence of buyers who might wonder what other high grade forgeries might be circulating now. And all of this without consequence to NGC, whose reputation is above reproach in the opinion of the public. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said in my first comment, as it stands that coin is now toxic no matter what. Nothing short of a public retraction could possibly rehabilitate it, the likelihood of which is probably zero. That reason alone is why I recommended OP just arrange for a refund right away. No matter how well grounded Roma&#039;s refutations to the contrary might be it won&#039;t be nearly enough to remove his doubt - or that of future owners.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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