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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26134457, member: 86815&quot;]Yes I completely agree with you [USER=78525]@jgenn[/USER] and I will make a conscious effort to raise this point on occasion. Unfortunately wherever there is money there are unscrupulous people and it really is a question of &quot;caveat emptor&quot;.</p><p>I am an amateur maritime historian. Over the past 50 years I have amassed a hoarders number of artefacts, always for interest and amusement, amongst them many coins and medallions which I never considered to be of numismatic interest compared to my interest in Ancient coins and British coins. it is only over the past couple of years and last year in particular I began to consider higher value coins after seeing cobs at the FUN convention and visiting the Mel Fisher museum.</p><p>I posted a thread elsewhere titled &quot; I finally found a use for slabs&quot; because generally I don&#039;t like them but with cobs they gave me some confidence and some TPG assurances of provenance.</p><p>I always recommend new collectors to buy the book before buying the object and it is a lot easier these days with internet access to forums such as these not to make mistakes.</p><p>I was staggered to learn that even very common ancients were being forged to sell to the unwary and personally have bought forgeries despite my initial research, once buying a forgery of the same ruler and coin twice! The second mistake because I did not check it as thoroughly as I did because the vendor was a well known reputable dealer. Fortunately I was alerted by forum members and was able to return the coin.</p><p>Under the UK PAS scheme new finds are reported so an attribute to a hoard can be easily verified but of course not so &quot;shipwreck&quot; coins.</p><p>My interest in the Titanic is because my elder daughter was born on the anniversary date of the sinking and this piqued my interest I have visited the Titanic exhibition in Northern Ireland and Florida and bought some fridge magnets and tumblers and don&#039;t anticipate they will be antiques of the future!</p><p>Of course President Lincoln was assassinated on the same day&nbsp; in April and I guess I could easily find a coin for that year but that is digressing from this thread.</p><p>I&#039;ll post some more coins and medallions over the coming weeks.</p><p>I&#039;ll keep my posts to coins associated with shipwrecks because to broaden the thread to ships in general would be a huge , but interesting subject.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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