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Bertolami wants to help you study (!) aka flooding market with fakes


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Thanks yes I know them somewhat, and had an earlier dated one for a while, but it was  just oddly amusing to me that a 1779 copy was acceptable to  my  overlords in Westminster but not 1780.   It's  not as  bad as  the Athenian  Coinage Decree I suppose!

 

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18 minutes ago, Phil Anthos said:

My experiences with this dealer have been such that I no longer do business there.

There's a big new  book out on Magna Graecia and Sicilian counterfeit coins, whose entire premise seems to be comparing real coins with fakes and ones by and large sold by Bertolami. The authors carefully point  out that Bertolami  knew  it was selling fakes and marked them as such but the fact that they pump out such vast numbers of  "coins to help us study" is such a problem. The book is 250 pages long....

Couple of random pages -

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