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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 4122044, member: 83956"]The other thing to me is that, if you have a genuine ancient Roman gold coin that you’re going to price at 90K, wouldn’t you clean it? That just looks like garden-variety dirt on the coin. It doesn’t appear to me to be hard deposits. </p><p><br /></p><p>Note that I am studiously avoiding raising questions about that coin’s authenticity. I learned my lesson all long time ago when I weighed in and pronounced a coin fake, only to have an expert confirm it was genuine. That’s all I needed to learn that I didn’t know as much as I thought I did. </p><p><br /></p><p>But still, it seems unusual to have a coin of that quality, if genuine, not be cleaned as thoroughly as possible for the market, and then be sold on eBay by seller with only 73 feedback ratings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I don’t have $90,000, it’s a moot point for me. A “High rating low price” approach to pricing?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 4122044, member: 83956"]The other thing to me is that, if you have a genuine ancient Roman gold coin that you’re going to price at 90K, wouldn’t you clean it? That just looks like garden-variety dirt on the coin. It doesn’t appear to me to be hard deposits. Note that I am studiously avoiding raising questions about that coin’s authenticity. I learned my lesson all long time ago when I weighed in and pronounced a coin fake, only to have an expert confirm it was genuine. That’s all I needed to learn that I didn’t know as much as I thought I did. But still, it seems unusual to have a coin of that quality, if genuine, not be cleaned as thoroughly as possible for the market, and then be sold on eBay by seller with only 73 feedback ratings. Since I don’t have $90,000, it’s a moot point for me. A “High rating low price” approach to pricing?[/QUOTE]
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