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Message:: [QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 2680718, member: 39084"]It's highly unlikely that any of the collectors of ancients who frequent this site are offended by this thread. What IS highly likely is that you're unlikely to get any responses that attempt to guess the grade assigned to this coin by the grading company.  To the best of my recollection, in the past five years on this site, among thousands of threads and tens of thousands of posts, there has never been a thread in which ancient collectors are asked to "guess the grade" of a slabbed coin. There's a reason for this: serious collectors of ancient coins purchase the coin, not the grade/slab.  Even those on this site who purchase slabbed ancients have the experience to choose coins based on their own evaluation of the coin's condition. There's certainly a market for slabbed ancients -- it's understandable that a novice collector would feel more comfortable with the authority and implied (but not guaranteed) authenticity that comes with a slabbed ancient, but most of the collectors here are beyond the novice phase of collecting. For speculators, slabbed ancients allow you to sell a $20 coin for $50, increasing your profit.  But again, overpaying for a coin simply because it's been slabbed isn't a generally discussed topic here. You're not being insulted -- there's no reason for you to respond as you did above -- it's just that this isn't the forum for guessing games about a slabbed ancient's grade.[/QUOTE]