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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2343551, member: 75525&quot;]As JA said, grading ancients is complicated. I have read Doug&#039;s pages several times and go back to them at times. I put my thoughts on how to pick an ancient coin in my blog - </p><p><a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-thoughts-on-coin-selection-pinarius.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-thoughts-on-coin-selection-pinarius.html" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-thoughts-on-coin-selection-pinarius.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A few thoughts to contrast modern and ancient coins:</p><ul> <li>Ancient coin dies were hand made. You may have trouble finding two examples of the same die. It is hard to do statistics on small populations.</li> <li>Ancient coins were hand struck. It is difficult to identify two coins from the same die.</li> <li>A 2000 year old silver coin is black. Get over cleaned coins.</li> <li>A 2000 year old bronze coin has an oxide coating. The condition of the coating is a big part of the value of the coin. Cleaning and leaving the patina is important.</li> </ul><p>Grading an ancient takes more time, but is worth the effort.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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