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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2227672, member: 74282&quot;]You can read a bit about their grading scale here <a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/specialty-services/ancient-coins/grading.aspx#scaleNetGrading" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/specialty-services/ancient-coins/grading.aspx#scaleNetGrading" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngccoin.com/specialty-services/ancient-coins/grading.aspx#scaleNetGrading</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as ancient collectors go: we care about the grade, but in a different way than US collectors. You can&#039;t really think about grading the same for ancients as you can with moderns and the 70-point scale because struck coins created with dies of varying style and quality on flans of varying quality have a lot more variables than you have to think about with modern coins and on top of that, there are many coins that are often found off-center or on small flans, so part of evaluating a purchase is deciding which devices you want on-flan and which you are OK with being missing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Doug has a great page that discusses some of the complications of grading ancients here <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html</a> . Really his whole site is excellent but IMHO this is required reading for those who are recent converts to &quot;the dark side&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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