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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7776693, member: 115909&quot;]Meh no one is perfect.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is if I broke it out of the slab and sent it in again they would label it clipped.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps whoever graded it the first time was still training or missed the fact it’s obscenely underweight for a denarius of Hadrian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian’s denarii are supposed to weigh 3.2-3.4g taking imperfections into account. Some were lighter at 3.2 and some were heavier at 3.4. Very rarely a 3.1 or 3.5g would slip by.</p><p><br /></p><p>But 2.89? No way. It’s just too low to be accidental imperfections during the minting process.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes wear &amp; tear can take some weight off a coin but this one is still AU so there’s no way it lost that much weight. If it was VF I’d say “yeah it’s probably wear” but not this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only two remaining possibilities are clipping (sweating would cause wear so it wasn’t sweated) or its a counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m just assuming the first since the second is even worse. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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