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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3674592, member: 44316&quot;]Every ancient coin has two sides, and often they are not in the same condition. Even the OP coin is better on the obverse than the reverse. It seems to me that any grading system that does not have separate numbers for the separate sides is fundamentally flawed. (Not to mention I agree with the posters above who don&#039;t like grades at all.) Maybe US coins tend to the in the same condition on both sides, but the two sides of very many ancients differ in die quality, quality of strike, centering, and corrosion (even if they don&#039;t differ in wear).</p><p><br /></p><p>I am surprised that NGC does not evaluate the two sides of ancient coins separately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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