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Warning: I spent $300 on a fake Roman coin from a shady online seller
I saw a listing for a 'genuine' denarius from the reign of Augustus, complete with a certificate. The price was too good to be true. I paid, got the coin, and took it to a local museum in Tucson. The curator told me in two minutes it was a modern cast, not ancient at all. The seller vanished after I tried to get my money back. Anyone know a legit place to buy verified artifacts online?
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patel.leo1mo ago
Feel your pain, that's a classic move. They always throw in that fake certificate to make it look official. Next time maybe try a big auction house website, they check that stuff for real.
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julia8921mo ago
Right? Like who even prints those things out? I should start making certificates for my old socks and selling them as vintage art.
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noahhall17d ago
You'd probably sell more than some of these people selling "authentic" certificates for things that came out of a factory last Tuesday. Old socks at least have a story to tell, even if it's just about how you walked through a puddle in 2019. I've got a drawer full of mismatched ones that could probably fetch a pretty penny if I framed them just right. Might have to start listing them next to the "vintage" baseball cards from 1991 that nobody actually wants.
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