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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7850365, member: 118780&quot;]Yes. Since this is a coins forum, though, I was only addressing the coins for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>What scares me the most about this is how long it took the authorities to take Sadigh down. People in the know have been aware of this guy&#039;s fakes for decades. Two years ago a museum had to <a href="https://westbranchtimes.com/article.php?id=15693" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://westbranchtimes.com/article.php?id=15693" rel="nofollow">shut down</a> an exhibition because the majority of artifacts, purchased from him, were fakes. <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-york-dealer-arrested-for-selling-cookie-cutter-manufactured-goods-as-authentic-antiquities" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-york-dealer-arrested-for-selling-cookie-cutter-manufactured-goods-as-authentic-antiquities" rel="nofollow">Here</a>&#039;s the Sadigh article outside of a pay wall. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Authorities were tipped off to Sadigh&#039;s enterprise when other dealers they were investigating for selling looted antiquities asked why “the guy selling all the fakes” was being ignored, Matthews Bogdanos, the head of the DA&#039;s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, told the Times.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>So, despite all this, authorities were completely unaware of him. This just boggles the mind. You almost wonder if a portion of the income was going to bribes, as by any piece of sanity he should have been shut down decades ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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