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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5289281, member: 110350&quot;]I almost always ignore grades for ancient coins (whether letter grades or NGC-type grades), and decide whether to buy a coin based purely on its eye appeal to me personally, with historical importance also a factor. (I don&#039;t pay much attention to rarity, except that if I&#039;m deciding which of two coins I like I&#039;m going to buy, I&#039;ll choose the rare one, all else being equal, because the type is less likely to come up for sale again anytime soon. But I don&#039;t care if a coin is rare if I think it&#039;s ugly.) Sometimes I judge on a curve -- for example, I&#039;m much more tolerant of the crude and/or worn appearance of a Roman Alexandrian tetradrachm of the 2nd Century AD then I am of a Roman Imperial denarius from the same period. Although the appearance of the Alexandrian coin still has to appeal to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all, the vast majority of coins sold on VCoins are supposedly Very Fine, despite the huge variation in appearance, so that grade doesn&#039;t tell me very much. A decent photo is much more informative.&nbsp; And once I buy a coin, I don&#039;t even include the dealer&#039;s grade in my description of the coin for my personal catalog.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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