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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 3576170, member: 39084&quot;]This is an interesting thesis on which to start a thread, but I&#039;m wondering if you have conducted sufficient research or have sufficient empirical data on which to make this generalization/assertion, other than &quot;...contacting the respective houses (<i>to make up my mind</i>),...&quot;&nbsp; From a purely mathematical standpoint, your statement doesn&#039;t resemble a statistically significant, unbiased subsample of the auction houses selling ancient coins.&nbsp; As anecdotal data, it points to your assertions but doesn&#039;t prove them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that I&#039;m not necessarily disagreeing with your points [Edit: In fact, I generally agree with most of them], but you&#039;re stating them as if they&#039;re proven facts, which most assuredly they&#039;re not.&nbsp; Further, if I were a conscientious, established auction house that provides a guarantee of authenticity for my coins, I&#039;d be a little irked at being implicitly accused by such generalizations, even more so without having had a chance to respond to such generalizations.&nbsp; There are many auction houses that seem to fit your observations, but certainly not all of them, and maybe not even a majority of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do agree that this forum, when posts about authenticity are objective, civil, and diplomatically made, is a great place to uncover forgeries and discuss specific coins whose features are suspect.&nbsp; We should all strive to provide our substantiated opinions courteously and devoid of snarky or insulting innuendo, and conversely, we should welcome such comments about our own coins.&nbsp; We all learn and improve in this way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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