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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8344629, member: 110350"]Very instructive, [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER]. Of course, I find all those coins to be completely gorgeous regardless of grade!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's how one dealer (Arete Coins), from whom I purchased both of my Imperial aurei, sees the difference between "good very fine" and just "very fine":</p><p><br /></p><p>Vespasian aureus (with 1910 provenance to De Sartiges Collection), described as "Couple of small edge cuts. Good very fine":</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/vespasian-aureus-2021-arete-photo-jpg.1422513/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninus Pius aureus, described as "VF, toned, one minor edge mark":</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/aureus-antoninus-pius-ceres-proserpina-arete-photo-jpg.1457098/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sure there are dealers who would have called the first one Extra Fine, but I think the dealer's grade was fair, and consistent with the coin's description in a 1938 catalog as "très beau."</p><p><br /></p><p>It's obvious even to my relatively uneducated eyes that the second one shows more wear, but that didn't bother me in the least. They both passed the "I like it" test with flying colors -- the impressive provenance of the first certainly didn't hurt, even though at the time of purchase it went back only to 1938 -- and the dealer's grades didn't even enter into my purchase decisions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8344629, member: 110350"]Very instructive, [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER]. Of course, I find all those coins to be completely gorgeous regardless of grade! Here's how one dealer (Arete Coins), from whom I purchased both of my Imperial aurei, sees the difference between "good very fine" and just "very fine": Vespasian aureus (with 1910 provenance to De Sartiges Collection), described as "Couple of small edge cuts. Good very fine": [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/vespasian-aureus-2021-arete-photo-jpg.1422513/[/IMG] Antoninus Pius aureus, described as "VF, toned, one minor edge mark": [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/aureus-antoninus-pius-ceres-proserpina-arete-photo-jpg.1457098/[/IMG] I'm sure there are dealers who would have called the first one Extra Fine, but I think the dealer's grade was fair, and consistent with the coin's description in a 1938 catalog as "très beau." It's obvious even to my relatively uneducated eyes that the second one shows more wear, but that didn't bother me in the least. They both passed the "I like it" test with flying colors -- the impressive provenance of the first certainly didn't hurt, even though at the time of purchase it went back only to 1938 -- and the dealer's grades didn't even enter into my purchase decisions.[/QUOTE]
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