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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4701837, member: 19463&quot;]Was this sold as an example of what I feel is the best die break in ancient coins?&nbsp; Compare it to mine. Boehringer 703 (v345/r481)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1154746[/ATTACH] </p><p>You can find these with a great deal more damage from the break and very little.&nbsp; I like mine because the strikers seemed to be tilting the die to lessen strain on the broken part resulting in a great strike on the lower right and almost none on the upper left.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, I agree with Valentinian.&nbsp; I believe grading does more harm to ancient coins as a hobby than it does good and we would be better off if no one applied their personal opinions as a letter.&nbsp; It takes a sentence or a paragraph to describe a coin meaningfully.&nbsp; NGC decided to use &#039;fine and friends&#039; just to refer to wear and gave other ratings to two other factors.&nbsp; I could see a completely original system rating grading points that might be useful but that could involve ten added considerations rather than two.&nbsp; In any event, I consider wear one of the points of lesser value when rating a coin.&nbsp; Adopting the Sheldon scale for large cents makes no good sense to me but it is what we have in popular use so we deal with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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