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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 25003392, member: 134416&quot;]This is more for fun, as the coin isn&#039;t slabbed.&nbsp; About 75% of ancients collectors have this attitude towards slabbing: (the media embed didn&#039;t work)</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G4tzXrG4o2I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G4tzXrG4o2I" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G4tzXrG4o2I</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1601640[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gordian III - AE Sestertius - 34mm, 23.57g, 12h - RIC IV 290a</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is a Sestertius of Gordian III. I&#039;m a collector of patinas, and I couldn&#039;t pass up this very different patina, especially with the coin&#039;s cheap price.&nbsp; It happened to come with an ID tag from a pre-1990&#039;s Italian dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>The purpose is to show how relatively unimportant stated grade is to ancients collectors.&nbsp; This coin certainly isn&#039;t one of my showpieces, more of a curiosity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Guess the grade!&nbsp; I guess, within reason, there&#039;s no right answer. (and the MS grades don&#039;t apply).&nbsp; There&#039;s poor/fair/good/very good/fine/extremely fine/FDC.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is difficult. If the coin had perfect surfaces, it would be relatively easy.&nbsp; The state of preservation makes it much more difficult.Does one grade by wear,etc?</p><p><br /></p><p>I could have gone 10/10 difficult and chosen a Byzantine AE.</p><p><br /></p><p>A bonus pic is a Gordian III with a really pretty and difficult-to-find patina:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1601641[/ATTACH]</p><p>I have a really spectacular example, with no brown crud (the brown crud seems to go hand-in-hand with aqua patinas), but it was too much trouble to resize the picture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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