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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1172473, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/grade.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/grade.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/grade.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My old page on grading ancients was based on the theory that the traditional system (G-VG-F-VF-EF) was not suitable for ancient coins without comments on other things that can happen to a coin at the mint and in the millenia that followed.&nbsp; I separated these factors into Conditions of Manufacture and Conditions of Preservation with the line drawn at the point the coin left the mint (possibly in MS grade???).&nbsp; I have made several changes to my grading pages on these two &#039;Conditions&#039; but have not yet addressed needed changes to the page on standard grading.&nbsp; That one will be harder.&nbsp; I ask anyone interested and willing to proofread the two pages that link from the above ignoring for now the one on standard grading.&nbsp; In addition to errors I may have missed, I would appreciate suggestions on other &#039;Conditions&#039; that I should have included.&nbsp; One I know is the Condition of Preservation &#039;Active Bronze Disease&#039; but I do not have a good photo of a heavily diseased coin (I avoid buying them, can you believe?).&nbsp; What else should I not miss?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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