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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2479074, member: 74282&quot;]Not surprising at all from Lanz. I don&#039;t think we should be hesitant at all to mention the seller in this context, the ancients community is small and those who regularly sell fake or altered coins deserve to have it known. Whether the reason is incompetence, laziness or malice it really doesn&#039;t matter, the result is still a seller that we should all avoid and we should do our best to warn fellow collectors away from.</p><p><br /></p><p>And just in case anyone buys his line about the eBay auctions being handled by a separate party, I&#039;ve copied his response below to an email thread about an extremely rare aureus of Diadumenian which had been tooled and which should have been apparent to its cataloguer because a pre-tooling provenance was mentioned, but the most recent auction listing made no mention of the tooling:</p><p><br /></p><p>Restauration is not tooling.</p><p>Beauty sells better not only in women.</p><p>Dr. Hubert Lanz</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the coin that was being discussed:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]523018[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]523019[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A seller who sees no problem with this is a seller who is bad for the hobby and should be avoided at all costs. That response above told me all I needed to know about Lanz and whether he should be dealt with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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