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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2772108, member: 10461&quot;]Am I correct in believing that NGC Ancients will not grade Kushan coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me rephrase that, since I realize most of you here couldn&#039;t care less about whether NGC grades them or not, and would only care about how difficult the plastic was to crack. LOL <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A member on Collectors Universe was fortunate enough to buy a number of ancient and early modern gold coins (at or near scrap values, as I recall!) and posted them for ID in the World &amp; Ancient Coins forum.&nbsp; (This would&#039;ve been sometime in the last three years, but I can&#039;t find the thread now.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There were some Axumite gold pieces, and Kushan, too, if I remember correctly.&nbsp; Plus a Netherlands ducat from the late 16th or 17th century.&nbsp; I thought it was a really amazing find.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was encouraged to get the coins certified and encapsulated for authentication purposes (or at least as some verification, since NGC Ancients does not offer an ironclad guarantee of authenticity, only an opinion).</p><p><br /></p><p>But apparently they don&#039;t encapsulate coins from Axum/Aksum at all, and I believe the same was true for Kushan coins.&nbsp; I suppose the nonclassical ancient civilizations are just a bit too exotic for American TPG services at this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a random observation.&nbsp; I realize it is likely irrelevant to most if not all of you who collect this sort of material.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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