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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2227528, member: 19463"]That Gallus is a perfect example of an ungradable ancient. What would the slabbers say? The top half of both sides is easily EF or mint state in their terms while the lower quarter is about good at best. 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. They might say EF 2/5, 3/5 but who would take that grade and imaging a coin that looks anything like this one? Yes, this coin has a lot of appeal and interest to some people. 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. When such beauty and ugliness meet on a coin, we must be in ancients. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]437403[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2227528, member: 19463"]That Gallus is a perfect example of an ungradable ancient. What would the slabbers say? The top half of both sides is easily EF or mint state in their terms while the lower quarter is about good at best. 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. They might say EF 2/5, 3/5 but who would take that grade and imaging a coin that looks anything like this one? Yes, this coin has a lot of appeal and interest to some people. If I owned it, I guarantee it would have made my new page on Wabi Sabi ancients: [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html[/url] I do not have such a strange Antioch but I believe my Gallus from Amiens is a bird of the feather. When such beauty and ugliness meet on a coin, we must be in ancients. [ATTACH=full]437403[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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