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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1978666, member: 19463"]IMHO the slabbers got it right. The Celt is really fine for these but the Servilia 1 is middle range on style. There were several members of the family that issued coins so we can't compare Steve's later issue to the OP early one. If I could have but one, I certainly prefer the OP design or the one from even later with the action scene. I can't recall seeing really nice ones of it.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1194184" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1194184" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1194184</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Grading has a lot of room for opinions and the Fine Style business is even more open to personal tastes. If I had been forced to guess, I would have lowered the strike score of the Republican to 4 but raised the surface of the Celtic to 5. That is why we always warn that you should buy the coin and not the slab. Of course there will be those of us who wold not have either coin precisely because they are in slabs but that is another rant from posts of the past.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1978666, member: 19463"]IMHO the slabbers got it right. The Celt is really fine for these but the Servilia 1 is middle range on style. There were several members of the family that issued coins so we can't compare Steve's later issue to the OP early one. If I could have but one, I certainly prefer the OP design or the one from even later with the action scene. I can't recall seeing really nice ones of it. [url]http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1194184[/url] Grading has a lot of room for opinions and the Fine Style business is even more open to personal tastes. If I had been forced to guess, I would have lowered the strike score of the Republican to 4 but raised the surface of the Celtic to 5. That is why we always warn that you should buy the coin and not the slab. Of course there will be those of us who wold not have either coin precisely because they are in slabs but that is another rant from posts of the past.[/QUOTE]
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