BEWARE OF FAKES!!! BLACK LIST SELLERS...

Searching through the internet, i was ASTONISHED by the number of fake coins going around... one can never be too careful...most of them are discovered by a very simple principle: it would extraodinary to have two coins, 2000 years old, with exactly the same cast...

One excelent preventive site is www.forgerynetwork.com. I found out on this site i bought few weeks ago a fake Herrenia coin to french seller magnence26 who was already asked for explanations...i will ALWAYS from now on check first this site before bidding any coin...

Another great site for forgeries www.chijanofuji.com/ancientforgeries.html.

And of course the extremely useful yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoinForgeryDiscussionList.

Two tips: looking at feedback numbers (the fake "specialists" are often forced to change names lossing their postiive feedbacks and beginning from zero) and avoiding "private biddings" (for "byer's privacy", my ass!).

Names i found - if they didn't change - of sellers to remember and avoid (or at least be extra cautious):

- magnence26
- empire_gallery
- imperatorial
- alexandriacoins
- 333omega (Spain)
- mazagurini
- romanseller
- antique_seller13
- Ancient-shop_com
- ber1yn
- legion_viii

and many more...

Joannus dixit.