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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 3528947, member: 24754&quot;]I&#039;m not even gonna try and side-step this one........I am the person that you&#039;ve described here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate the historicity and artful beauty of coins as much as the next person, but I am more a coin collector and less a numismatist. I want an Emperor collection to display for others. Friends/family/visitors find the coins and historical accounts of the period to be terribly interesting. Watching them get a kick out of seeing 2000 year old coins and hearing about the sexually deviant, horrifically violent, and totally absurd stories associated with the emperors is my real motivation.</p><p><br /></p><p>With that being said, my primary purchasing consideration is making sure that I get my money&#039;s worth. When I spend $400 on a coin that comes back in a body bag then I feel as though I&#039;ve been ripped off, which is infuriating!</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, I feel better about owning a slabbed coin even if it is improperly graded (tooled but not noted) because the value is in the slab. There, I said it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I knew the whole slab issue was gonna be controversial, but that&#039;s not why I made this post. I&#039;m angry about my situation. I just want to know at whom to direct my anger.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. At the auctioneers for being dishonest?</p><p>2. At NGC for having unrealistic standards?</p><p>3. Or at myself for being an idiot? (Go easy!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll try to take some better pictures so that you guys can have a better look. Maybe you can figure out the culprit, because I sure can&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought it would be problematic to disclose the auctioneers, but if it&#039;s generally not considered a problem then I&#039;ll put it out there. The Caligula ($500), Claudius ($215), and Trajan ($230) were from a Frank Robinson auction and the Domitian ($180) and Hadrian ($400) were from a CNG auction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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