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Message:: [QUOTE="Deacon Ray, post: 2968660, member: 81896"]Greetings to my CTAF friends, I haven't been posting very often during the last few weeks because I've been traveling and visiting relatives in the frozen north. I'm glad to be back for a while. I took my tablet with me so I could at least check out the CTAF during quiet times. I also wanted to be able to show my brother (who is an on-again off-again modern U.S. coin collector. Mercury dimes are his specialty) some of my ancient coins and posters. He looked at my various images of Judaean,  Roman, Seleucid, and Indo-Scythian coins etc. His first words were—How do you know they're real? I replied to him that I purchase only from the most reputable dealers who stand behind their artifacts. I could see on his face that he was still unconvinced. I had a couple of slabbed ancients with me and it was not until I handed him one that he started to believe that my coins were real. [ATTACH=full]727931[/ATTACH] I'm not posting this to stir up anything among forum member friends. I just wanted to demonstrate how non-collectors and modern collectors perceive our collections. They think that if it's not in a slab from one of the big three third party grading companies—ANACS, PGCS, or NGC they can't be real. Have any of you had any frustrating experiences with family or non-collectors? [/QUOTE]