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Posted 11/07/2016 09:37 am
I have never purchased an item from the 'group' in question. Although I know several people who do and swear by them.
From my perspective that becomes part of the problem !
Finding that special coin that makes us open our wallet is always so much easier when it comes from a "reliable" source. A source that people we know have many good things to say about.
As mentioned elsewhere very many (most ?) of the coins they sell are 'slabbed' by NGC (itself an outfit of some reknown !) so it makes almost everyone comfortable ........ doesn't it ?
As I see it
The reasoning itself becomes circular. The people at NGC receive the coin from a 'reliable' source (Heritage) with whom they (probably) do much business with both professionally and personally. Their inclination is to believe (or want to believe) that the source being legit the coin must be also. The coin comes back slabbed (and graded) so the auction house believes that since NGC graded it that it must be genuine.
Everyone is laying in the same bed so it must be love !
I have several pieces that for several years I have wanted to send off to Mssr Sear.
(thinking about my possibly unique Caligula As and my Trajan dupondius overstrike)
I need to get moving really as the 'old boy' isn't going to live forever (neither am I for that matter). But I intend on submitting with only a minimal amount of information included. If he asks for additional 'facts' I will provide of course ! After I get some information in my direction !
Whether I found the coin on the floor of the supermarket or bought it at a local flea market bears little on whether the coin is genuine !
Nor should the final judgement be based on circumstantial evidence.
Recently someone posted this pic on Facebook
Itself a cesspool of fake ancients
Can you tell which one is real ?
From the photograph alone certainly I can't.
Edit
I would add that several years ago (when this was a much smaller and intimate forum) a member posted a coin he had personally unearthed (UK I recall) that he believed he had found under completely legitimate circumstances. It was the near unanimous opinion of the members that the coin was a fake ! Someone at some point in the not too distant past had 'salted' the area.
Stranger than fiction
From my perspective that becomes part of the problem !
Finding that special coin that makes us open our wallet is always so much easier when it comes from a "reliable" source. A source that people we know have many good things to say about.
As mentioned elsewhere very many (most ?) of the coins they sell are 'slabbed' by NGC (itself an outfit of some reknown !) so it makes almost everyone comfortable ........ doesn't it ?
As I see it
The reasoning itself becomes circular. The people at NGC receive the coin from a 'reliable' source (Heritage) with whom they (probably) do much business with both professionally and personally. Their inclination is to believe (or want to believe) that the source being legit the coin must be also. The coin comes back slabbed (and graded) so the auction house believes that since NGC graded it that it must be genuine.
Everyone is laying in the same bed so it must be love !
I have several pieces that for several years I have wanted to send off to Mssr Sear.
(thinking about my possibly unique Caligula As and my Trajan dupondius overstrike)
I need to get moving really as the 'old boy' isn't going to live forever (neither am I for that matter). But I intend on submitting with only a minimal amount of information included. If he asks for additional 'facts' I will provide of course ! After I get some information in my direction !
Whether I found the coin on the floor of the supermarket or bought it at a local flea market bears little on whether the coin is genuine !
Nor should the final judgement be based on circumstantial evidence.
Recently someone posted this pic on Facebook
Itself a cesspool of fake ancients
Can you tell which one is real ?
From the photograph alone certainly I can't.
Edit
I would add that several years ago (when this was a much smaller and intimate forum) a member posted a coin he had personally unearthed (UK I recall) that he believed he had found under completely legitimate circumstances. It was the near unanimous opinion of the members that the coin was a fake ! Someone at some point in the not too distant past had 'salted' the area.
Stranger than fiction
Edited by FVRIVS RVFVS
11/07/2016 10:06 am
11/07/2016 10:06 am
