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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1272274, member: 26302&quot;]I don&#039;t specialize in colts, and they can be a whole specialty in themselves. I know they have theri own specialty books. I can look tonight if my more general books discuss the two marks on the reverse. I know the number of symbols on these issues was quite large. Hopefully someone here has some of the better references on these for you, as all I would have would be BMC, SNG Copenhagen, and the like.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for grading, if any ancient dealer tries to say &quot;VF for type&quot; or &quot;EF weak strike&quot;, or any other excuse take it with a grain of salt. ALWAYS grade an ancient versus detail possible. The fact is many ancients left the mint as a VF coin. Some byzantines might have been more like a F fresh from the mint. While having WHY it is lower grade may be interesting, it does not change its grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>Put it this way, in modern coinage perfection is expected since it is done on machines. Therefor, inperfect coins are highly collectible. In ancient, perfection is an absolute rarity, and we are striving for the best detail possible, and any deficiency is a negative to that. See why we are different? I laugh at every local coin show since invariably there is a guy with some ancient coin listing on the 2x2 &quot;Ancient ERROR!!!!!&quot;. Dang, I have hundreds of Byzantine coins, and most of them are errors! The few non errors are the prize of my Byzantine collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your reverse is a gVF I would say, but the reverse is a F due to its softness. I say overall a VF and am really giving it a bump due to style, which I said is very pleasing. I apologize when I give grades since most US collectors act offended at a VF, yet in ancients a VF is an excellent grade. Myself, most of my coins are f-vf, with just 10% of my collection being in the EF category, and I am not unusual. We simply grade much stricter than US collectors do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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