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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 4909873, member: 109923&quot;]To be fair, if you look at the auction site itself, the words &#039;modern copy&#039; are at the start and the end of the description:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.artemideaste.com/auction/view/732/78" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.artemideaste.com/auction/view/732/78" rel="nofollow">https://www.artemideaste.com/auction/view/732/78</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184682[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps they realised they weren&#039;t being clear enough after Numisbids took the description.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that doesn&#039;t mean the advice to read carefully doesn&#039;t hold true. There are so many auctions where they mix copies in with the genuine coins and few are as clear as Artemide to label it a &#039;modern copy&#039;. You have to know the terminology to realise it&#039;s a copy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like in the above example where they give the references of a genuine coin, but you have to know &#039;cf&#039; is an abbreviation of &#039;conferre&#039;, the Latin for &#039;compare&#039;. How obscure is that?</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t know what an &#039;electrotype&#039; was until I saw CNG (I think) had a separate section for them and I looked it up. And I often get confused when auctions keep switching between the phrases &#039;collectable sample&#039; (i.e. a high-grade genuine coin) and &#039;collector&#039;s copy&#039; (i.e. a fake). When you&#039;re looking at hundreds of coins you can miss it and make an irreversible bid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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