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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KSorbo, post: 2261433, member: 56370&quot;]I appreciate all of the feedback and discussion, as this is my first posting on the Ancients forum.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been getting pulled toward the dark side as of late with my last couple new purchases being posted in the World forum and now I&#039;ve drifted all the way over here <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for certified coins, my approach may differ from a lot of people but I consider the TPG&#039;s to be value added for most any non-modern coins including ancients.&nbsp; Even though everyone is quick to say that &quot;NGC doesn&#039;t guarantee authenticity&quot;, they still have a reputation to uphold and I&#039;d rather trust someone who evaluates coins for a living, particularly for material that I don&#039;t know much about.&nbsp; Even more importantly the certification helps a lot for resale.&nbsp; Why should I be afraid to admit that I&#039;m a beginner, especially in a world full of very convincing fakes?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It would be nice if NGC provided more attribution, but to be fair none of the other certified Alexander coins I saw on Ebay were attributed any more than mine.&nbsp; From what I&#039;ve learned from this discussion it seems that attributing a coin with 4000+ varieties would be a science project to say the least, so I&#039;m not surprised NGC doesn&#039;t sign up for it. At least they make a distinction between &quot;lifetime&quot; and &quot;posthumous&quot; which to my understanding has the biggest impact on value.&nbsp; I knew when I bought the coin that it wasn&#039;t minted under Alexander because it had &quot;early posthumous&quot; spelled out on the label.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile I&#039;ll continue to speculate on where the coin was spent.&nbsp; An amphora of wine or olive oil perhaps, or maybe other goods and services?&nbsp; Several years ago I took a tour of ancient Ephesus in modern day Turkey and saw one of the world&#039;s oldest known advertisements.&nbsp; I&#039;ll just say it was for the service industry and leave it at that...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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