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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1386351, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with the aVF and the $100 figure but would point out that this is probably the most common and least &#039;special&#039; reverse so the market for the coin is mostly people looking for one coin per emperor or one ancient rather than specialists.&nbsp; For that reason, the&nbsp; slab and low end company won;t reduce its value so I&#039;d not remove it like I would if it were a 3 pigs or Judaea type for example.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The reason that slab companies don&#039;t identify coins more fully is that it would require them to hire people who could do the work.&nbsp; As it is there are enough slabs with errors (confusing similar rulers) so we don&#039;t need them trying to assign catalog numbers.&nbsp; While I agree that IGC tends to overgrade I also would say that if there were any ancients that should be slabbed, this might be one.&nbsp; Enjoy the coin.&nbsp; Who knows maybe someday you will want a second ancient and get one that you can actually hold, examine and photograph properly which is why most of us don&#039;t buy slabs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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