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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 5289249, member: 97383&quot;]I&#039;m sorry about your confusion; since I didn&#039;t have a Vespasian as or photo of one at my fingertips I used another bronze of similar wear with a much better surface for the comparison. Common sense has to be used in grading a coin regardless of what standard you use. Doug Smith brought up some good points. Often an NGC graded coin can be misleading with their Surface &amp; Strike numbers. If a collector sees a surface grading of 2/5 on a coin like my Constantine follis he might instantly back off thinking the coin is a bad investment. I removed it from the slab, since I thought the 2/5 rating was absurd. The porosity on the reverse of that coin isn&#039;t serious. Some coins should be slabbed &amp; some shouldn&#039;t. I wouldn&#039;t waste the money getting that Vespasian as slabbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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