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<p>[QUOTE="chrsmat71, post: 3100999, member: 42634"]This is the same seller I purchased this coin from...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/uh-oh-looks-like-a-fake.316990/#post-3089596" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/uh-oh-looks-like-a-fake.316990/#post-3089596">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/uh-oh-looks-like-a-fake.316990/#post-3089596</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When I contacted the seller and told him I wanted to return the coin, I told him all the reasons why it was a fake as listed in the thread above. He was apologetic, refunded my money, and told me to keep the coin. I offered to pay for the shipping cost for letting me keep the coin (I'd pay a couple bucks for a black cabinet piece) and he declined. He mentioned that he discovered that he had purchased some other fake coins and had destroyed them. I even invited him to come by cointalk and post coins that he was uncertain about. Maybe he just discovered the coin in this thread is a fake? The way he responded to some of my messages made me think that perhaps English is a second language for him, and he isn't sure how to articulate some things exactly (when he mentions the OP is a "study" coin for example?).</p><p><br /></p><p>Without going into the details of the conversations I had with him, I got the impression that he was an older guy that was just selling a bunch of stuff without really knowing what it is. I did check forums fake seller list and didn't see him, but he was added to the other list recently (March this year), even though he has been selling on ebay for quite some time. I think he may be a modern coin collector that just jumped into to selling ancients coins on ebay and doesn't really know anything about the coins he is selling other than what someone put on the flip insert from whoever he got them from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrsmat71, post: 3100999, member: 42634"]This is the same seller I purchased this coin from... [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/uh-oh-looks-like-a-fake.316990/#post-3089596[/url] When I contacted the seller and told him I wanted to return the coin, I told him all the reasons why it was a fake as listed in the thread above. He was apologetic, refunded my money, and told me to keep the coin. I offered to pay for the shipping cost for letting me keep the coin (I'd pay a couple bucks for a black cabinet piece) and he declined. He mentioned that he discovered that he had purchased some other fake coins and had destroyed them. I even invited him to come by cointalk and post coins that he was uncertain about. Maybe he just discovered the coin in this thread is a fake? The way he responded to some of my messages made me think that perhaps English is a second language for him, and he isn't sure how to articulate some things exactly (when he mentions the OP is a "study" coin for example?). Without going into the details of the conversations I had with him, I got the impression that he was an older guy that was just selling a bunch of stuff without really knowing what it is. I did check forums fake seller list and didn't see him, but he was added to the other list recently (March this year), even though he has been selling on ebay for quite some time. I think he may be a modern coin collector that just jumped into to selling ancients coins on ebay and doesn't really know anything about the coins he is selling other than what someone put on the flip insert from whoever he got them from.[/QUOTE]
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