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Message:: [QUOTE="nerosmyfavorite68, post: 25144773, member: 134416"]I won't do this very often.  I just happened to buy a fun, confuse-a-cat coin to offer up as a GTG, fun edition.  It might make the slabbers go "oh no, ohhhhh!," like Mr. Bill. There's a bit of education in here.  I offer up the toughies in order to show the relative absurdity of grading ancients (and thus, slabbing them). There's no wrong answers, within reason.  Ancients can have a split grade, such as F obv/VF reverse, or a close grade, such as Fine plus or aVF (same difference). Poor (slick)Fair (barely visible)Good outline visibleVGFVFEFmint stateFDC Hint: this would be a rather exceptional coin, were it not for the fip-over double strike. Double hint; it's also neither FDC nor mint state. I could have gone 10/10 difficult and found a completely muddled Heraclius. Ancients also don't have the tiny gradations; 35, etc. I'd love to see more participation this time.  I have my 'grade' in mind, so it's the honor system, but there's really three grades on this list that one could put, depending on the criteria.  [ATTACH=full]1603343[/ATTACH] It's a Romanus IV (1067-71) anonymous Christ follis. I had a lot of views last time, but few responses.  I won't poo-poo anyone's grade.  Have some fun and also a bit of learning will be involved.[/QUOTE]