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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1679504, member: 26302&quot;]I agree with educating yourself and learning how to grade. I disagree though with saying the ANA standards are the &quot;basis&quot;. Its the basis of US grading standards, not world or ancient grading standards. Ancients use a completely different system than US collectors, and have used it long before the US was a country. </p><p><br /></p><p>Learn to grade the coin according to the accepted grading system in place. If someone grades an ancient according to US grading standards, then looks up in a values book the price, they will be way overpaying. US grading is MUCH more lax than ancient grading is. My rule of thumb is to knock a full grade off of a &quot;us grade&quot; when applying it to world or ancient coins. A US VF becomes a F, a F becomes a VG, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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