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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Barry Murphy, post: 4562150, member: 79368&quot;]I can&#039;t comment on a specific coin as to why it was returned as a no-grade without knowing which coin it was. It&#039;s could have been due to cleaning, or altered surface or some other reason hat we weren&#039;t confident it was genuine, nor were we certain it was a forgery. We were probably 50/50 or 60/40 as to whether it was genuine or not.&nbsp; In those instances coins get returned as No Decision. Also, with first century sestertii, there are a ton, and I mean a ton, of 19th century cast forgeries on the market that are actually quite good and very deceptive. No casting seems, good patinas, proper weight and color etc. We are quite cautious with first century bronzes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning David Sear, he doesn&#039;t have a &quot;No Decision&quot; option. There actually is a lot of gray area in ancient coins and when coins fall into this category, he guesses on whether he thinks a coin is real or not, and he makes a lot of mistakes. I don&#039;t know in this case if it was a mistake or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>When a coin&nbsp; is returned as no decision you don&#039;t pay the grading fees, just the postage charges. Assuming the coin was sent in with other coins, it didn&#039;t cost you anything. If it was sent in alone there&#039;s not much I can do about the postage charges unless you don&#039;t want the coin returned to you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning the lose coin, ancient coins aren&#039;t round, they are heavy and thick and at times they come lose from the prongs. We try to make sure they are secure, but they still pop out occasionally. We do 50-60,000 coins a year and perhaps have to reholder 20 every year, normally tetradrachms due to their thickness and weight. These can be returned and we will reholder them at no charge, other than the postage fee.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barry Murphy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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