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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8300778, member: 110226&quot;]I&#039;ve never purchased an ancient coin from a dealer based in Italy.&nbsp; I have purchased more &quot;modern&quot; coins from the 17&#039;th century and maybe a lion daalder or two, as well as some cobs, but those coins are outside the jurisdiction of the statute covering ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember, at the flea market in Rome, 1969, we purchased a couple of Roman Republic cast coins that were clearly not genuine, even to a 16-year-old.&nbsp; I remember my dad asking the seller if they were original, in kind of fake Italian accent. I was so embarrassed!</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2017 I notice that there&#039;s coin shop near the bus station in Rome.&nbsp; I was interested in visiting it, but other factors got in the way - brutally hot temperatures (El Diablo that year, scorched much of Europe), I was getting sick (the Roman cold I took back to the US), and there just wasn&#039;t enough time (rushing around with this family seeing as many sites as possible in one day - exhausting!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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