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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 4145486, member: 82322"]"Fair" has a specific meaning for US coins. See <a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/how_to_grade_draped_bust_large_cent.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/how_to_grade_draped_bust_large_cent.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/how_to_grade_draped_bust_large_cent.html</a> . You will confuse everyone if you have a grade "Fair" that is better than "Fair" for a large cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your system needs to make sense both to people coming from classic coins and people wanting to predict the grade NGC Ancients will give them if they slab. Stay as close as you can to those two things.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to Doug's pages take a look at Robert Kokotailo's pages <a href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/grading/grading.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/grading/grading.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/grading/grading.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes we see Islamic coins that are 100% Arabic text, and the text is 100% there, but the coin is only Fine because the text has lost all depth. Roman coins usually have a face on one side, but your grading explanation will be better if you challenge yourself to write sufficient descriptions to explain the grading of "text and a wreath" and not just faces and horses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 4145486, member: 82322"]"Fair" has a specific meaning for US coins. See [URL]http://coinauctionshelp.com/how_to_grade_draped_bust_large_cent.html[/URL] . You will confuse everyone if you have a grade "Fair" that is better than "Fair" for a large cent. Your system needs to make sense both to people coming from classic coins and people wanting to predict the grade NGC Ancients will give them if they slab. Stay as close as you can to those two things. In addition to Doug's pages take a look at Robert Kokotailo's pages [URL]http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/grading/grading.htm[/URL] Sometimes we see Islamic coins that are 100% Arabic text, and the text is 100% there, but the coin is only Fine because the text has lost all depth. Roman coins usually have a face on one side, but your grading explanation will be better if you challenge yourself to write sufficient descriptions to explain the grading of "text and a wreath" and not just faces and horses.[/QUOTE]
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