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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2227528, member: 19463&quot;]That Gallus is a perfect example of an ungradable ancient. What would the slabbers say?&nbsp; The top half of both sides is easily EF or mint state in their terms while the lower quarter is about good at best.&nbsp; The surfaces are perfect as far as deterioration goes but the lousy strike failed to erase the flan casting porosity leaving ugly texture on the detail free zones.&nbsp; They might say EF 2/5, 3/5 but who would take that grade and imaging a coin that looks anything like this one?&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, this coin has a lot of appeal and interest to some people.&nbsp; If I owned it, I guarantee it would have made my new page on Wabi Sabi ancients:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have such a strange Antioch but I believe my Gallus from Amiens is a bird of the feather.&nbsp;&nbsp; When such beauty and ugliness meet on a coin, we must be in ancients.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]437403[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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