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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3445940, member: 56859"]Save yourself the headache and just send him this article which reviews traditional grading of ancient coins (and separately, NGC grading). It will answer all of his questions and correct his misperceptions-- assuming he is willing to learn... which may be overly optimistic.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/grading-ancient-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/grading-ancient-coins/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/grading-ancient-coins/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Towards the end of the article there is a video of David Vagi talking about grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite part is the last paragraph of the article, a quote from a Forum Ancient Coins article:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="6">"For ancient coins, eye appeal is much more important than grade. Eye appeal really is whatever looks good to you! Every collector has the best possible skill in judging their own eye appeal. Nobody needs an expert or a number to tell them what they like."</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the referenced FAC article on grading, which is more detailed than the article:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Grading%20Guidelines%20for%20Ancient%20Coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Grading%20Guidelines%20for%20Ancient%20Coins" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Grading Guidelines for Ancient Coins</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3445940, member: 56859"]Save yourself the headache and just send him this article which reviews traditional grading of ancient coins (and separately, NGC grading). It will answer all of his questions and correct his misperceptions-- assuming he is willing to learn... which may be overly optimistic. [url]https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/grading-ancient-coins/[/url] Towards the end of the article there is a video of David Vagi talking about grading. My favorite part is the last paragraph of the article, a quote from a Forum Ancient Coins article: [I][SIZE=6]"For ancient coins, eye appeal is much more important than grade. Eye appeal really is whatever looks good to you! Every collector has the best possible skill in judging their own eye appeal. Nobody needs an expert or a number to tell them what they like."[/SIZE][/I] Here is the referenced FAC article on grading, which is more detailed than the article: [URL='http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Grading%20Guidelines%20for%20Ancient%20Coins']http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Grading Guidelines for Ancient Coins[/URL][/QUOTE]
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