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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3763337, member: 19463&quot;]Congratulations on the great addition.&nbsp; I fail to understand the NGC surface downgrade to 3/5. The reverse here is really nice for these.&nbsp; Not being &quot;messed with&quot; is one thing but a coin that does not tempt someone to &quot;mess&quot; is at least a 4/5.&nbsp; On the other hand, I would not have given a 5/5 for strike due to the weak&nbsp; obverse right side so all we show here is why I was not asked to work there.&nbsp; The coin is obviously one to keep for life and a person your age could well see the end of the slabbing fad so you will suffer no loss having removed it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I own no coin to show but did run across another Judaea Capta sestertius when researching another recent CT thread.&nbsp; It was also NGC graded 5/5 - 3/5 and is definitely a coin I would prefer having been seen by NGC to assure the originality of the Ostrogothic incision. (There are 21st century Ostrogoths upgrading worn coins with these numbers.) This is a fine example of when being &quot;messed with&quot; is OK! </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4665773" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4665773" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4665773</a></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/50/4628/4665773.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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