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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2227696, member: 19463&quot;]I would not go so far as to say that ancient collectors don&#039;t care about grade but the degree of wear grade (G - EF etc.) is far from the most important feature in deciding whether a coin is desirable or not.&nbsp; It is really that way with US coins as well but they are common enough that the grading companies just refuse to grade coins that have any of several characteristics that ALL ancient coins have (centering, cleaning, corrosion) to some degree as a result of spending a thousand years buried in the ground.&nbsp; US collectors who go for metal detector find large cents have a lot more in common with our grades than they do with collectors of Lincoln pennies.&nbsp; All ancient grades are assumed to be &#039;details&#039; grades and the important things are all in the other details - the ones that can make an unworn coin look like garbage and the ones that make a coin so pretty that we can overlook it has some wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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