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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1792473, member: 19463&quot;]For some reason I have a desire to update some of my web pages but have no firm idea on what to do to make them more useful to more people.&nbsp; I was going to do the photography pages but they are such a mess I decided to take an easy out and tackle grading first.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Perhaps it is a problem that I don&#039;t believe it is possible to grade ancients.&nbsp; There are just too many factors and too many opinions on how various situations rank in comparison to each other.&nbsp; US coins are easier because we have some idea what to expect and what an ideal coin should look like but few ancients can be addressed using those same standards.&nbsp; To demonstrate this I have a page on a few coins I considered impossible to grade.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html</a></p><p>Perhaps you remember when we discussed these.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]289535[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My earliest grading pages identified situations found on coins and separated them into things that happened at the mint (Conditions of Manufacture) and things that happened after the coin fell from the dies (Conditions of Preservation).&nbsp; Without attempting to assign values to the situations, I illustrated a number of examples of coins to define the terms needed to describe the condition of our coins.&nbsp; I failed at my attempts and never posted a system to assign numerical values to these situations.&nbsp; Perhaps that &#039;no answer&#039; is still the best answer.&nbsp; If nothing else, those pages might help a new collector understand the standard terms used to describe coin defects.&nbsp; Opinions on how to improve these pages are solicited.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/grade.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/grade.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/grade.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Do you consider grading ancient coins to be a necessary subject to address or are you happy to omit that information from your catalog on the theory that a photo can do the job a thousand times better?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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