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As the saying goes "Good Judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well that comes from bad judgment".

Hi Ukstu. Thanks for your valued info. I hope i can at least tell genuine millled coins by now. Its the hammered coins which i started collecting this year that i am not at all sure about. I do like the look of them in my collection, i have only about a dozen so far. Not really expensive coins, ranging from £20 to my most recent and nicest coin at £150 which is a Charles 1st halfcrown and has centre stage in my collection of hammered coins. As for Roman coins. ...that is totally different territory and i would not venture into collecting them. Those coins really look a minefield for forgeries unless perhaps you are dealing directly with a reputable auction house, even then by all accounts the forgeries are that good the auctioneers have been fooled on occasion. Its sad really as it will put future generations off coin collecting. Would you believe i have a link to a roman coin forgery discussion page, but i cannot find a milled coin forgery page. Have you a link to the one you mentioned? Thanks again and regards.

Rob, like me, will get multiple queries a week from ebayers and other MOP's asking if coins are real and what they're worth. I assume (dangerous as that makes ass out of u and me) that Rob, like me, gets totally pissed off with it. We learnt the hard way and the expensive way. We made mistakes and then we taught ourselves with the help of others and at substantial personal cost by buying more books than coins. My own reference library runs into the Thousands of Pounds, Rob has an even larger library than me! Giving advice on here to fellow collectors is okay but giving advice for other people to profit from is a bit like asking your local plumber to fit your heating for free as you support the same team as him? One off life changing purchases is obviously a reference to the fact that there are very few purchases you will miss by not being clued up that will not come around again. You come across as both offended and slightly offensive, chill out, it's supposed to be a hobby and hobbies are supposed to be fun ;-)

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