A fun little game

This antoninianus of Philip I arrived today. It happened to be in a slab, which caused peripheral toning on both the obverse and reverse. I really like the look of this coin, which is nicely struck with full luster.

The reverse portrays Roma seated holding Victory and a spear. The inscription, which is fairly hard to read, says ROMAE AETERNAE. Attribution is RIC 106.

It is in an old ANACS soapbar slab. Here’s the game: Guess what grade they gave.

@Conder101 I have not seen an ancient coin in a soapbar ANACS holder. Before I crack it out, is there any value in the holder itself? I really want to crack it out to get decent pictures of how this coin truly looks.



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I don't know on grade, that has never ben my thing really. Very fine? I'd grade it as sweet+.

For me it's great, I love flow lines and a bit of tonning...so that is totally nice.

 

For the amount of detail showing, they should have called it XF at the least, and better if they allowed for the fact that the coins of Philip and family are often weakly struck. But if they used a grading standard not based on ancients, then who knows...

 

I would say VF .. but what do I know?
I would give it 5/5 for Flow Lines though!

 

VF+ is my guess

 

MS-62.358

 

They used the 70-point scale just like for modern coins

 

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

 

I had no clue ANACS did ancients and a 70 point scale? Ancient coinage can be so variable and different its hard to make a standard down to exactly a 1 point difference

 

I thought it was rather amusing myself. And I 100% disagree with the grade assigned.

 

Nice coin. I was a US coin guy before transitioning to ancients and always liked the small ANACS holders. I think if the serial number starts with a letter rather than a number they are earlier and thus more desirable for the holder guys. I’d guess anyone who is collecting slabs may want a representative holder with an ancient, but good luck finding them. I say EF 40.

 

AU-50

 

@chrsmat71 nailed the grade .

I'm guessing ANACS gave it an MS 60.

 

I'll also guess AU 50

Here's mine:

 

I agree—AU 50.

 

Since you disagree with the grading I'll go low AU 37

 

AU 55

I’ve seen ancients in the photo certificate era of Anacs and ANAAB (as well as the newer blue and now yellow holders), but I don’t recall any in the small white holders.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-photo-cert-anaab-by-the-ana.280181/

 

I think I see some doubling on the T in AETERNAE so I'm going to guess VF40 DDR T/T

 

Hopefully you have freed it from it's slab. I consider slabbing ancient coins unconscionable.

 

There were several winners. However the coin is fully lustrous and Mint State. The weak strike must have been considered wear.