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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3600843, member: 84744&quot;]I would give that page an A++! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You asked for comments and suggestions; I had to try pretty hard to think of anything useful!&nbsp; I can only think of one thing that <i>might</i> be worth adding.&nbsp; I think modern collectors worry a lot about getting screwed by buying something that&#039;s graded too high.&nbsp; They&#039;ll likely bring that attitude when they try to move to ancients.&nbsp; (In the slab, they&#039;re looking for something that guarantees their investment.)&nbsp; Yikes, they&#039;ll ask, how do I guarantee my investment in ancients?&nbsp; All those factors I could be <i>wrong</i> about!&nbsp; This is too hard, aaargh!&nbsp; You don&#039;t really address this worry explicitly.</p><p><br /></p><p>In part 3, your discussion strongly suggests that the value of ancient coins is quite subjective.&nbsp; I agree.&nbsp; It depends who is looking at the coin, and which of the many relevant factors matter to them personally.&nbsp; (Recently exhibited well in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/why-so-high.342021/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/why-so-high.342021/">this thread</a>.)&nbsp; Maybe that will scare these people off.&nbsp; (Maybe that&#039;s OK! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)&nbsp; But you could consider adding some comments to the effect that <i>it&#039;s perfectly fine for the value of an ancient coin to be somewhat subjective</i>.&nbsp; In a way, that should assuage their worry.&nbsp; There isn&#039;t some fixed value that the coin has right now, and which they could be misled about.&nbsp; The value is much more approximate and fluid than that.&nbsp; So they should just chill out and decide if they like the coin!&nbsp; Freedom! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You sort of say that already, (&quot;With ancients there is far more leeway to like whatever appeals to you&quot;), but I wonder whether a modern collector so steeped in the tyranny of grading might not get that particular message, among the other important messages you&#039;re conveying about the tyranny.</p><p><br /></p><p>In honour of interesting &amp; attractive low grade coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]963541[/ATTACH]</p><p>Caracalla, Emesa, 30mm, 19.40g. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Stone of Emesa within hexastyle temple.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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