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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3526384, member: 76194"]Well, I would say almost all of the ones that NGC determined were fake, were fairly obvious fakes. Had you asked us in this forum before buying, we could have saved you that experience. I know jack squat about Bactrian coins, but could have told you they were fakes despite not knowing anything about those coins. The surfaces were obvious indicatives of being cast coins. I've seen the same surface look on a hundred other casts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend you do the following until you learn more about coins....(1) shop only reliable and trustworthy dealers like coolcoins.com (our own Ken Dorney), Civitas Galleries, Mark Breitsprecher at mrbcoins.com, FORVM shop, or sign up for auctions such as CNG Auctions and Agora Auctions. (2) when shopping anywhere else, get the opinion of a few members here first. Never hurts. (3) Go to coin shows where ancients dealers are present and spend an afternoon holding ancient coins and seeing them under magnification, and asking dealers for tips on how to examine coins for genuineness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3526384, member: 76194"]Well, I would say almost all of the ones that NGC determined were fake, were fairly obvious fakes. Had you asked us in this forum before buying, we could have saved you that experience. I know jack squat about Bactrian coins, but could have told you they were fakes despite not knowing anything about those coins. The surfaces were obvious indicatives of being cast coins. I've seen the same surface look on a hundred other casts. I recommend you do the following until you learn more about coins....(1) shop only reliable and trustworthy dealers like coolcoins.com (our own Ken Dorney), Civitas Galleries, Mark Breitsprecher at mrbcoins.com, FORVM shop, or sign up for auctions such as CNG Auctions and Agora Auctions. (2) when shopping anywhere else, get the opinion of a few members here first. Never hurts. (3) Go to coin shows where ancients dealers are present and spend an afternoon holding ancient coins and seeing them under magnification, and asking dealers for tips on how to examine coins for genuineness.[/QUOTE]
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