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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3366186, member: 19463"]Odd may not have been the word I would have chosen but it should attract a certain amount of attention. I suppose it could be worse - the fakes dated 44BC come to mind. Without the legend flag, how many of us would suspect the coin? The Forvm listing suggests they are sold as fakes. Are they sold a gift shops in Bulgarian museums? </p><p><br /></p><p>We have some decent but certainly not complete resources of known fakes. I went to the Forvm one first and they had this one. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here we go with the big 'philosophy of collecting' question. How many is 'that many'? Given a random selection of 100 coins claiming to be ancients, would being able to state correctly 'real' or 'fake' on 99 make you feel good? That means that you might have one unknown fake in your collection for every 100 coins you bought. I consider that pretty bad and hope my number is more like one in a thousand. Our experts in the business may open a parcel of 10,000 coins. 1 in 1000 errors would hardly be considered stellar performance. That may be why no one is asking me to expertise coins for a living. I have to live with the fact that I make mistakes and buy an occasional fake. My level of ability will not qualify me to expertise coins professionally but allows me to enjoy the hobby. I recently discovered <i>for certain</i> that a coin I had questioned for 30 years was, in fact, a fake. I questioned it in 1992 but wanted it to be real. I am out the price of the coin since the seller died years ago. If his heirs were willing to accept the return of the coin for refund, I am not sure I would want to give it up. Keeping it will remind me not to be so stupid......maybe.....I hope. How many more such signs of fallibility can I accept in my collection before I say 'enough'? One in 100 would be devastating; one in 10,000 would be something I would be proud of. Where is my 'that many'? Yours?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3366186, member: 19463"]Odd may not have been the word I would have chosen but it should attract a certain amount of attention. I suppose it could be worse - the fakes dated 44BC come to mind. Without the legend flag, how many of us would suspect the coin? The Forvm listing suggests they are sold as fakes. Are they sold a gift shops in Bulgarian museums? We have some decent but certainly not complete resources of known fakes. I went to the Forvm one first and they had this one. Here we go with the big 'philosophy of collecting' question. How many is 'that many'? Given a random selection of 100 coins claiming to be ancients, would being able to state correctly 'real' or 'fake' on 99 make you feel good? That means that you might have one unknown fake in your collection for every 100 coins you bought. I consider that pretty bad and hope my number is more like one in a thousand. Our experts in the business may open a parcel of 10,000 coins. 1 in 1000 errors would hardly be considered stellar performance. That may be why no one is asking me to expertise coins for a living. I have to live with the fact that I make mistakes and buy an occasional fake. My level of ability will not qualify me to expertise coins professionally but allows me to enjoy the hobby. I recently discovered [I]for certain[/I] that a coin I had questioned for 30 years was, in fact, a fake. I questioned it in 1992 but wanted it to be real. I am out the price of the coin since the seller died years ago. If his heirs were willing to accept the return of the coin for refund, I am not sure I would want to give it up. Keeping it will remind me not to be so stupid......maybe.....I hope. How many more such signs of fallibility can I accept in my collection before I say 'enough'? One in 100 would be devastating; one in 10,000 would be something I would be proud of. Where is my 'that many'? Yours?[/QUOTE]
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