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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2499212, member: 19463&quot;]I agree 1000% with Bing.&nbsp; Mikey&#039;s coin is much much better than Bing&#039;s BUT, technically speaking, Bing&#039;s is higher grade and &#039;honestly&#039; VF while Mikey&#039;s coin has way too much wear to be called VF.&nbsp; IMHO a VF needs to have a laurel wreath outline at least.&nbsp; This is a great example of how hard it is to grade ancients.&nbsp; If I were going to apply the new style slab friendly grading to Mikey&#039;s coin I would consider F+ 5/5 4/5 appropriate while Bing&#039;s is pretty much free of wear so at least VF (it has some claim on higher because of fine details in the laurel leaves).&nbsp; Is it an EF 4/5 2/5 with note on the edge problems?&nbsp; The odd part is I would easily pay twice (4x?) as much for Mikey&#039;s coin as for Bing&#039;s.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hate roughness - can you tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is more honest and more worn than Mikey&#039;s so it is perhaps VG 3/5 3/5.&nbsp; I&#039;m really not comfortable playing guess what they would grade any coin but this is the reason that people should not pay by the numbers.&nbsp; Buy the coin, not the grade.&nbsp; Mikey got a winner!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]530066[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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