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<p>[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2328516, member: 44183"]<span style="color: #0000ff">Wow, SwK => that's a top-notch coin (congrats, on scoring that beauty!!) </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)">Ummm, but because the grading-scale for ancients is quite random and depends so heavily upon so many different coin-aspects, I thought we kinda decided to grade ancients on a slightly less rigid-scale:</span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">interesting</span></b> => dirty ol' cull (it kinda looks like a button)</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">cool</span></b> => good-VG (you can usually make-out most of the things on the coin)</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">sweet</span></b> => Fine-VF (typical CT-examples => great examples of nice lookin' coins)</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">awesome</span></b> => EF - Unc (all of us have a few of these babies => this is the majority of TIF's stuff)</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">AJ-esque</span></b> => MS, Minty-fresh!! (yah, Mr Bond and a couple of you high-enders occasionally wow us with a few of these babies!!)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Yah, I'm 100% sure that a few others will probably strongly disagree with my slightly less qualitative-scale (man, I can hear them now), but I'm also pretty sure that we'd all rank a fistful of coins quite differently, based on who likes patina and who is obsessed with centering and who likes the little owl in the corner, etc, etc ... there are a few too many variables to blanket-grade a sweet ol' ancient coin (know what I mean?) </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Ummm, and I guess that's why most of us end-up freeing our slabbed ancient coins from their plastic prison-cells (uh-oh, I'm getting worked-up)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Oh, but again => wow, that's a fantastic OP-coin (it's gorgeous) ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=> great thread (it gets people thinking and talking about grading)</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2328516, member: 44183"][COLOR=#0000ff]Wow, SwK => that's a top-notch coin (congrats, on scoring that beauty!!) [/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 255)]Ummm, but because the grading-scale for ancients is quite random and depends so heavily upon so many different coin-aspects, I thought we kinda decided to grade ancients on a slightly less rigid-scale:[/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#ff0000]interesting[/COLOR][/B] => dirty ol' cull (it kinda looks like a button) [B][COLOR=#ff0000]cool[/COLOR][/B] => good-VG (you can usually make-out most of the things on the coin) [B][COLOR=#ff0000]sweet[/COLOR][/B] => Fine-VF (typical CT-examples => great examples of nice lookin' coins) [B][COLOR=#ff0000]awesome[/COLOR][/B] => EF - Unc (all of us have a few of these babies => this is the majority of TIF's stuff) [B][COLOR=#ff0000]AJ-esque[/COLOR][/B] => MS, Minty-fresh!! (yah, Mr Bond and a couple of you high-enders occasionally wow us with a few of these babies!!) [COLOR=#0000ff]Yah, I'm 100% sure that a few others will probably strongly disagree with my slightly less qualitative-scale (man, I can hear them now), but I'm also pretty sure that we'd all rank a fistful of coins quite differently, based on who likes patina and who is obsessed with centering and who likes the little owl in the corner, etc, etc ... there are a few too many variables to blanket-grade a sweet ol' ancient coin (know what I mean?) Ummm, and I guess that's why most of us end-up freeing our slabbed ancient coins from their plastic prison-cells (uh-oh, I'm getting worked-up) Oh, but again => wow, that's a fantastic OP-coin (it's gorgeous) ... => great thread (it gets people thinking and talking about grading)[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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