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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 8022776, member: 80952&quot;]Not all dealers are skilled, especially those who don&#039;t specialize in ancients. </p><p>Mistaking Philip for Decius is not something an average-skilled dealer would do, especially since the legend is readable. Either he attributed it without paying attention or he bought it with an incorrect label and didn&#039;t check. </p><p>... or he didn&#039;t care. </p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a few coins from a seller who sometimes, rarely, has ancient coins. They are usually in 2x2 flips (this is a term I learned from American members, as we don&#039;t use inches <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; ) with a small paper label, hand written decades ago. </p><p>For me it is clear, those were the remains of an old collection that was cherry picked multiple times and the available coins were the ones that didn&#039;t catch anyone&#039;s eye. Extremely worn, very common. </p><p>One of the errors in attributing was a MFB litra labelled as Gela. It is in fact Panormos. Understandable at some degree. </p><p>But on others the labels tend to be funny. Because the coins were mixed in their flips and I bought a Siclily Katane bronze from late 3rd century BC -&nbsp; proudly labelled as Nerva.</p><p>When the coins are not labelled, he has no clue but he tries to improvise. </p><p>Last time he was showing me a veiled Constantine. For him, it was an Antonia. </p><p>I wrote here that he also taught me that portraits with spiked crowns belong either to Antoninus Pius (if 3 spikes) or Gordian III (4 spikes). That&#039;s it. So now you know!</p><p><br /></p><p>He is not trying to deceive anyone but for some reason he didn&#039;t manage to learn anything about ancients. </p><p>The only thing I do with this kind of people is making sure I can distinguish what I buy and if I am not confident about authenticity, skip.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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