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<p>[QUOTE="nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8343676, member: 134416"]The dealer's grade doesn't mean all that much to me; it's just one of those slightly annoyings things, like Andy Rooney used to point out, "Did you ever notice...?" </p><p><br /></p><p>More important to me is bronze disease and tooling. I get the omission of BD if it's a bargain basement coin and they're listing 10 billion coins. But for a better coin, I want to know. Super obvious BD is easy to spot, but sometimes it's also hard to tell whether it's old verdigris or active. I lost out on a higher grade (by wear) Heraclius Seleucia that way. By the time I had sent off an enquiry to the dealer, the coin was gone. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to see something funny, search Abydos Apollo lyre with $50 as the top cutoff. If I see that face in the window, I'm calling a paranormal show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8343676, member: 134416"]The dealer's grade doesn't mean all that much to me; it's just one of those slightly annoyings things, like Andy Rooney used to point out, "Did you ever notice...?" More important to me is bronze disease and tooling. I get the omission of BD if it's a bargain basement coin and they're listing 10 billion coins. But for a better coin, I want to know. Super obvious BD is easy to spot, but sometimes it's also hard to tell whether it's old verdigris or active. I lost out on a higher grade (by wear) Heraclius Seleucia that way. By the time I had sent off an enquiry to the dealer, the coin was gone. [URL]https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx[/URL] If you want to see something funny, search Abydos Apollo lyre with $50 as the top cutoff. If I see that face in the window, I'm calling a paranormal show.[/QUOTE]
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