"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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"Dave Welsh" wrote in message
news:Sp1Gg.1399$AP2.460@fed1read10...
An eBay auction (closed August 4) sold a Macedonian tetradrachm,
positively
identified as a fake by Cliff Laubstein, who reported this on the Coin
Forgery Discussion List (CFDL):


I don't believe everything I read on that forum, but in this case I think
he
is correct.

Here is a link to the auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=160013058599

It sure looks real to me. That's why I have no business bidding on such
items. Whose fault would it have been, therefore, had I bid and won?

Mr. Jaggers



The hidden bidders ID alone would do it for me.