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<p>[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 4647148, member: 78244"]A far greater percentage of ancients collectors learn how to authenticate themselves, but most dealers are bonafide experts with strong guarantees of authenticity and originality. These dealers’ opinions are trusted.</p><p><br /></p><p>some collectors send coins to NGC just to get an opinion of authenticity from Barry Murphy, and then crack it out. NGC keeps photo records of all of their coins, so you can prove NGC’s opinion for a certain coin. They have an extremely high correctness percentage (I think less than 10 confirmed fakes of the tens of thousands of ancients certified), so the opinion is highly respected, even though it isn’t guaranteed.</p><p><br /></p><p>For ancient Chinese coins, which is my expertise, I can count on two hands the number of people whose authenticity opinions I trust, myself included. I don’t implicitly trust Chinese TPGs because I have seen multiple probable fakes in their holders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 4647148, member: 78244"]A far greater percentage of ancients collectors learn how to authenticate themselves, but most dealers are bonafide experts with strong guarantees of authenticity and originality. These dealers’ opinions are trusted. some collectors send coins to NGC just to get an opinion of authenticity from Barry Murphy, and then crack it out. NGC keeps photo records of all of their coins, so you can prove NGC’s opinion for a certain coin. They have an extremely high correctness percentage (I think less than 10 confirmed fakes of the tens of thousands of ancients certified), so the opinion is highly respected, even though it isn’t guaranteed. For ancient Chinese coins, which is my expertise, I can count on two hands the number of people whose authenticity opinions I trust, myself included. I don’t implicitly trust Chinese TPGs because I have seen multiple probable fakes in their holders.[/QUOTE]
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