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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1312585, member: 26302&quot;]I will, you know me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would grade it aVF, I see a slight difference in grade between the CNG one and Collect89&#039;s. Both are nice coins, don&#039;t get me wrong Collect, I just see a hair too much wear on yours for a full VF. Not saying I would not like to own it, it would go nice with some of my Larissa facing busts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Always remember an XF ancient is a truly wonderful coin. Way too many dealers &quot;give a break&quot; to old coins and try to bump them up a grade, when in fact ancients are graded more strictly than US coins. Same with world coins. An old dealer told me a world dealer overpaid for a US collection once, paying too high % of book, but undergraded all of the US coins by a full grade at least so still made a lot of money off the deal. Ancients and (used to be at least), world coins deduct roughly a full grade versus US coin grading. A true XF ancient, if graded as a US coin, would grade AU50-BU63 is my guess. A true VF ancient would be XF40-45.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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