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Message:: [QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2619847, member: 76194"]Hahaha. There is one thing you have to learn about NGC, which frankly as a US or World collector you should have learned. They add whatever they have to to their labels for a little extra money. Which is why you have things like First Strike on bullion coins, or special Wyatt Earp, Christmas, and Home Shopping Network labels that have nothing to do with the coins themselves, etc. None of the "hoards" NGC has for ancients is a real hoard...or at least there is no academic/historical evidence for such hoards existing. They've made up the Colloseum Hoard, the Byzantine Hoard, the Seven Hills Hoard, and looks like now they have a new one, the Golden Age Hoard. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> If I had a big company with enough cash to grade and have a new hoard created, and 500 coins at my disposal, I'd pay them to create a hoard for me too...I was thinking something like the Imperial Hoard, or the Augustian Hoard, etc. It's called marketing. Invent a hoard name and some sucker will pay extra for the label. It's a nice coin, but I bet your wife paid 50% too much for it because of the plastic and fake hoard name. Well, at least it got you into the club. Welcome! Stick around and you'll be blown away by how fun ancients are.[/QUOTE]