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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2441116, member: 39084&quot;]I&#039;m going to go against the prevailing grain here, at least a little bit, and defend tequilaDave&#039;s orientation toward pursuing ancient coins as a business opportunity to buy and sell slabbed coins for a profit.&nbsp; This is a perfectly understandable orientation, given that he purchased an ancient coin on a whim and it appears that he can now resell it at a profit, despite having limited or no knowledge about ancient coins (either at the time he purchased the original, or now that he&#039;s trying to sell it).</p><p><br /></p><p>In my view, this site just isn&#039;t the place to get his question answered; there is a clash between the OP&#039;s particular interest and the interests of the overwhelming number of collectors on this site.&nbsp; Namely, as <i>collectors</i> of ancients, we&#039;re focused on things other than finding business opportunities for possibly undervalued, slabbed coins.&nbsp; Because of this, most of us have little if any experience with which to answer his question (&quot;<i>My question is this - how unusual is it for an ancient graded by a third tier grading company to jump a solid 2+ grades?</i>&quot;).&nbsp; I know I certainly don&#039;t have that experience, nor do most others here except maybe those on this site who also spend time as dealers of ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think a better response is that, as serious collectors of ancients, we can&#039;t really answer his question in any depth, for one or all of the following reasons:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The &quot;AU *&quot; grade is not something that any of us on this site use to grade ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The vast majority of us do not, and would not buy a slabbed coin except under extreme duress, and thus slabs add no value in our evaluation of ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Evaluation of an ancient coin&#039;s value <i>to a serious collector</i> would require at least a high-quality picture, but more likely an evaluation of the coin <i>in hand</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Evaluation of an ancient coin&#039;s value to a <i>casual collector</i> who has limited or little knowledge of ancients is, again, not really something any of us can authoritatively claim to be able to provide.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than castigating the OP for his question, I personally would prefer to respond that for the most part, I (we?) can&#039;t really provide any helpful information for him since that&#039;s outside our individual or collective orientation toward ancient coin collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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