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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 6339311, member: 80952&quot;]I don&#039;t have a Sabina coin yet. It is on the wish list as I like coins with empresses.</p><p><br /></p><p>About grading - I guarantee you they know and they are putting &quot;optimistic&quot; grades on purpose. They = auction houses and dealers. </p><p>Personally I don&#039;t consider this a major issue - I&nbsp; prefer to ignore the grading suggested by auction houses and I decide the grade myself and an actual price I am willing to pay for the coin. If I like the coin and the hammer price is in my brackets, I buy it. </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of collectors are absolutely charmed when seeing terms like &quot;good very fine&quot; &quot;almost uncirculated&quot;. And a lot of them believe that all the coins described as &quot;rare&quot; are actually rare. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a lot of coins described by auction houses as &quot;nearly very fine&quot; or &quot;very fine&quot; but I would be too indulgent if I graded them as F. I didn&#039;t care about this aspect and usually I ignore that line in the description - I bought those coins because 1. I liked them 2. the price was OK for their correct grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also saw some slabbed European modern coins with a grade that made me laugh. Overgraded that is. But this is a totally different topic. </p><p><br /></p><p>A collector needs to learn to grade coins correctly and have a general idea about the price of a coin, judging after rarity and condition (yes, for ancients this is very abstract - just 2 weeks ago I paid 75 EUR + fees for a coin; the correct price would have been, in my opinion, 45-50 - but I wanted the coin and I didn&#039;t want to wait a few months for another one to appear)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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