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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 279273, member: 6370&quot;]there arent that many people sending coins to Mr. Sears I would think as most coins can be authenticated another way and the fun in collecting is attribution thus there is no need for that service for most coins. I wouldnt send a coin to him unless it was rather expensive and his authentication would ease my mind and anyone who might invest in an expensive ancient coin. When you are talking a 3000 dollar coin, whats 40 or 50 bucks. I also believe that the ancient coin collector is a smaller group and tend to concentrate heavily on fake detection and attribution. Most collectors of ancients are hypersensitive to fakes and how to detect them and making known who the dealers are, cataloging fake types and studying the lists so they might spot one. So...maybe...they are better at spotting a fake as a whole as an ancient coin, IMO, is easier to fake because of the way they are minted.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are some differences between ancient coins, modern and those people who collect the different types and how they approach collecting, but in the end...we are all collectors of coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>here are a list of his books on that same site...the man knows ancient coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.davidrsear.com/books.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.davidrsear.com/books.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidrsear.com/books.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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