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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2328471, member: 19463"]I have no use for the current obsession with grading. The Claudius die shown was a masterpiece and the coin is magnificent but the same coin with a little wear is still a nice item and does not deserve the hate heaped upon it by collectors who would rather have no coin than the one available. There are hundreds of Claudius /Spes sestertii. Some have good surfaces, some have good strikes, some have excellent style and some have no wear. Few have all those situations on one coin. We each will have a different opinion on which is of primary importance. I have always been impressed by the rendition of the transparent drapery on this Spes and prefer coins that show this to advantage. Traditional grading with such high emphasis on wear is unsuited for ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1687692" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1687692" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1687692</a></p><p>Is the above coin a sign that Claudius suffered from goiter or that the tooling was done by an amateur? I'd prefer the OP coin carried as a pocket piece and worn to VF. Second thought: Make that VG.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1467409" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1467409" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1467409</a></p><p>Another VF has several minor problems but shows my desired transparent drapery to good advantage making me more forgiving of some of the faults.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2657736" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2657736" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2657736</a></p><p>This one is what I consider a very collectible coin that I would grade Fine but too many dealers know that calling a coin less than VF will keep it from selling so we get this listing as 'good Very Fine'. Perhaps the countermark restored the points lost when the laurel wreath disappeared???</p><p><br /></p><p>While the OP coin is great in every way the feature that sets it apart the most to my way of thinking is "<i><b>untouched green-brown patina</b>". </i>More of these are some degree of smoothed, tooled or some hard to define intermediate processing than we can imagine. Ancients can not be graded with a couple letters. Some are hard to describe in a paragraph.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2328471, member: 19463"]I have no use for the current obsession with grading. The Claudius die shown was a masterpiece and the coin is magnificent but the same coin with a little wear is still a nice item and does not deserve the hate heaped upon it by collectors who would rather have no coin than the one available. There are hundreds of Claudius /Spes sestertii. Some have good surfaces, some have good strikes, some have excellent style and some have no wear. Few have all those situations on one coin. We each will have a different opinion on which is of primary importance. I have always been impressed by the rendition of the transparent drapery on this Spes and prefer coins that show this to advantage. Traditional grading with such high emphasis on wear is unsuited for ancient coins. [url]http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1687692[/url] Is the above coin a sign that Claudius suffered from goiter or that the tooling was done by an amateur? I'd prefer the OP coin carried as a pocket piece and worn to VF. Second thought: Make that VG. [url]http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1467409[/url] Another VF has several minor problems but shows my desired transparent drapery to good advantage making me more forgiving of some of the faults. [url]http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2657736[/url] This one is what I consider a very collectible coin that I would grade Fine but too many dealers know that calling a coin less than VF will keep it from selling so we get this listing as 'good Very Fine'. Perhaps the countermark restored the points lost when the laurel wreath disappeared??? While the OP coin is great in every way the feature that sets it apart the most to my way of thinking is "[I][B]untouched green-brown patina[/B]". [/I]More of these are some degree of smoothed, tooled or some hard to define intermediate processing than we can imagine. Ancients can not be graded with a couple letters. Some are hard to describe in a paragraph.[/QUOTE]
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