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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3162948, member: 74282&quot;]His advice was wrong and I think you&#039;re giving whoever this is far too much credit calling him a &quot;very knowledgeable&quot; ancient collector. The fact that an ancient coin looks good is not a reason to doubt it. There are plenty of beautiful coins out there</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Like anything else, you study the coins well enough to spot inconsistencies in fabric(the physical characteristics of the coin) and the actual engraving style of the dies, along with the telltale signs of various types of fakes. This takes time and practice and handling plenty of good coins so that you can develop this skill so a big part of avoiding fakes is buying from people who have spent sometimes decades professionally selling and studying these coins and not from &quot;ancient coins 4 u&quot; who setup shop on eBay a month ago offering way better prices than those other guys.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, it&#039;s not something that can be explained in a paragraph or two on CoinTalk, just as I can&#039;t tell you in a paragraph or two how to figure out if you can safely eat the mushroom you found growing behind your house earlier. I might be able to tell you if a particular mushroom is safe based on a picture but even then maybe not, it might require a spore pattern to tell. The best I can do is tell you that when I cook beef Wellingtons on Christmas I pay my grocer to figure out if the mushrooms are safe or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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