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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8170579, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ll go farther than that and point out that any time you post something without checking it you are risking losing your reputation for someone else&#039;s error or even stupidity.&nbsp; Lately we have been seeing evidence of rushed to auction coins with obvious problems (tooling and fakes) that should have been caught by the big houses but were not.&nbsp; Time is money and money is the only reason the big houses exist. They used to care more about long term reputation but now that seems to be slipping. We all make mistakes but amateurs can be excused more easily than the 20% buyer&#039;s premium crowd.&nbsp; One big mistake is not allowing your catalogers to do their job properly in an effort to run second rate coins through while the market is hot.&nbsp; Checking provenance is not a job for minimum wages workers and not something to be left to cut and paste technology.&nbsp; Below are two coins shown next to their Dattari/Savio illustrations.&nbsp; Which one is a &#039;this coin&#039; and which is a fake?&nbsp; I&#039;m an amateur and made a mistake on one but I&#039;m not selling my expertise to the highest bidder.&nbsp; We all need to check each other and everyone else. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1427279[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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