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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7949934, member: 118780&quot;]Here&#039;s an article with a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10092029/NYC-antique-dealer-admits-selling-thousands-fakes-store-decades.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10092029/NYC-antique-dealer-admits-selling-thousands-fakes-store-decades.html" rel="nofollow">bit more information</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I found interesting was this:</p><p><i>He staved off suspicion for decades by hiring a company to bury customers&#039; complaints about bogus antiques, removing negative reviews from Google searches, and getting others to rave about his store and products in fake reviews.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO it just shows that we need to do our research when it comes to these kinds of artifacts (including coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>My suspicion remains that he also stayed under the radar for so long through bribes. Admittedly I&#039;m completely jumping to conclusions here, but it would also make sense that those he did bribe wouldn&#039;t want more details uncovered through a lengthy criminal trial. Therefore, it made best sense to all those involved to just send Sadigh into retirement.</p><p><br /></p><p>One frustrating thing is you now have thousands of antiques sold by him that will inevitably circle through the market. Most buyers likely remain clueless that their precious artifacts are fake. For the next few hundred years, collectors and galleries of these antiques will need to painstakingly remove these fakes from the market piece-by-piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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