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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7878164, member: 19463&quot;]Coins of that type are frequently seen with cuts and countermarks.&nbsp; Mine is only mine because the seller considered it doubly defective.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358274[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp; Personally, I prefer the hole to the horribly brushed surfaces that show up even in most of the photos here.&nbsp; That is a minority opinion and mine means nothing since I do not buy gold coins polished or not.&nbsp; I do want one but a specific one and regret that one does not appear in the group still with its hole.&nbsp; While I am softening in my opposition to slabbed coins and appreciate the effort NGC puts into these things, I still believe that their grading system causes some of this by emphasizing the wear grade expressed in letters the least experienced think they understand at the expense of the strike and surface ratings given as fractions that probably mystify a good number of the new buyers that NGC was created to bring into the hobby.&nbsp;&nbsp; I may be the only one but I would much prefer a F 5/5 5/5 to a MS 1/5 1/5.&nbsp; NGC remade the standard grading system for ancients but only went half way retaining those letters that fool people.&nbsp; A MS 1/5 1/5 (if there ever has been one) is not a nice coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I can not pass up the opportunity to show again (and again) the numismatic item I would most like to own (or even see just to know where and that it exists).&nbsp; My photo is French and from the late 1850&#039;s.&nbsp; I believe the coins are Postumus (???).&nbsp; Each has four holes to accept the double rings of the bracelet.&nbsp; That would be some provenance.&nbsp; I could forgive those holes. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358278[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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