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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3162841, member: 19463"]Perhaps you are correct. It was a Rosa (Sayles, <b>Classical Deception</b> page 182 number 321). It may have been one Rosa added to his Beckers. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the time I have been participating on CT and before that on Coin Community, I have seen more than one of the Pescennius Niger I showed and the matching Pertinax. We get increasing numbers of people with money to spend and no inclination to learn. In every case the coins had been 'aged' making a beat up $100 item out of a coin that would be many times that in mint state but also many times more suspicious to most people. Slavey only fools people who want to believe at this point. After a few more years, who knows? My Pertinax is toning nicely but there is nothing to help the style or fabric which are just plain old wrong. Maybe it would sell better if put in a slab type holder of no particular brand (any plastic is better than none???). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]812413[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3162841, member: 19463"]Perhaps you are correct. It was a Rosa (Sayles, [B]Classical Deception[/B] page 182 number 321). It may have been one Rosa added to his Beckers. In the time I have been participating on CT and before that on Coin Community, I have seen more than one of the Pescennius Niger I showed and the matching Pertinax. We get increasing numbers of people with money to spend and no inclination to learn. In every case the coins had been 'aged' making a beat up $100 item out of a coin that would be many times that in mint state but also many times more suspicious to most people. Slavey only fools people who want to believe at this point. After a few more years, who knows? My Pertinax is toning nicely but there is nothing to help the style or fabric which are just plain old wrong. Maybe it would sell better if put in a slab type holder of no particular brand (any plastic is better than none???). [ATTACH=full]812413[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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