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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2652001, member: 76194&quot;]Grading ancients is pretty straight forward, unless you want to get into the modern grading nonsense like giving a rare denarius an MS-58 as I once saw a dealer do.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>I do object to &quot;mint state&quot; </b>being used by NGC Ancients for obvious reasons. All ancient coins have been cleaned...So how can something cleaned be mint state? You could say it is a gXF (which means exceptional preservation and expertly cleaned) but it just won&#039;t be mint state after thousands of years in the ground and cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to admit this [<b>warning: controversial statement</b>] I&#039;ve actually considered slabbing simply because it might be a better way to store and make sure the coins are easy to sell by my decendants after I pass away, but just submitting what I currently have would cost over <b>$2,100.00,</b> (that&#039;s for about 100 coins) and I have a small collection by the standards of many people in this room. How many ancient coins would I have to give up on just to get a plastic holder. At least 20 to 30 denarii, or almost two dozen Greek beauties. I don&#039;t think it&#039;s worth it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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