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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3610445, member: 96864"]Nice scores, I like your Anastasius follis, which reminds me that I should get an upgrade!</p><p><br /></p><p>I want to like the encolpion but for obvious reasons they are a favorite of forgers and fake sellers so I hope you got it from a dealer of impeccable scruples, as its patina and style as well as the suspension loop style looks very similar to examples of fakes made and sold by Bulgarian/Serbian/Ukrainian/Russian fake sellers I've been keeping an eye on. A considerable majority of these that I've seen are fakes or suspicious so you need to be extremely careful with them. I hate to bring the cloud of doubt to your day but hate the idea of good folk possibly getting swindled far more, hopefully it's legit but I'd pick the brains of those with more experience with them, maybe [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER] can weigh in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3610445, member: 96864"]Nice scores, I like your Anastasius follis, which reminds me that I should get an upgrade! I want to like the encolpion but for obvious reasons they are a favorite of forgers and fake sellers so I hope you got it from a dealer of impeccable scruples, as its patina and style as well as the suspension loop style looks very similar to examples of fakes made and sold by Bulgarian/Serbian/Ukrainian/Russian fake sellers I've been keeping an eye on. A considerable majority of these that I've seen are fakes or suspicious so you need to be extremely careful with them. I hate to bring the cloud of doubt to your day but hate the idea of good folk possibly getting swindled far more, hopefully it's legit but I'd pick the brains of those with more experience with them, maybe [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER] can weigh in.[/QUOTE]
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