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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 971783, member: 19463&quot;]Does ANACS note deficiencies on ancient slabs? (Do you have one to show?) How bad does it have to get before they do? The OP coin has very minor double striking on both sides but I would not bother mentioning it. The question is whether it is correct to call all three of these coins F when each of them reached that level through different routes or whether F refers to wear and other factors need to be noted otherwise.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How do you grade the coin below?&nbsp; From wear (small details on the laurel leaves remain)? ...down a grade for legend loss? ...down another for hangnail or ragged flan?&nbsp; Looks like we could have another Fine here.&nbsp; If a coin is missing ten letters but all are unimportant to the ID, does that coin grade above or below a coin missing one letter that keeps it from being catalogued?&nbsp; Should we address the question of whether grading can consider how a specific issue is usually found.&nbsp; If 95% of all of a certain issue are partial legend, do those coins all get noted of the problem or just if the coin is usually found full and round (like the late Rome mint Septimius denarii are)?&nbsp; I find humor in some dealers noting that a coin is EF &#039;for these&#039; when the coin looks Fine at best but most you see are G-VG.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My point is that anyone setting themselves up as a professional grading service for ancients needs to consider a number of things that never crossed the mind of Mr. Sheldon when he invented the 70 point system.&nbsp; Perhaps that is why some grading services refuse to grade certain coin types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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