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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1612273, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ll agree with all of the Ides of March post.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t agree with Mat regarding the two coins.&nbsp; Most collectors who know no better will see that the first coin has EF detail on the portrait but is only Fine on the body of the reverse.&nbsp; Mat&#039;s comparison coin merges the head, ear and crown so I&#039;f call it aVF but the reverse is decently struck and probably full VF.&nbsp; I&#039;d prefer Mat&#039;s aVF/VF coin and would in fact buy it if I wanted the type.&nbsp; The OP EF/F coin may be a bit nice to get Mat&#039;s alternative grade but I definitely would not buy it and do suggest it be left in the coffin since the metal soundness looks suspect to me.&nbsp; It is scandalous that the coin I see was graded AU (obverse only???) but the strike/surface numbers strike me as several digits high.&nbsp; If the grading company actually used US standards it would be a body bag (as would 95% of all ancients).&nbsp; I do not work for a slab company but I&#039;d call the OP an EF/F 2/2 and Mat&#039;s an aVF/VF 4/3.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do agree with the theory that slabbed ancients are just for people who don&#039;t want ancients, don&#039;t care to learn and want to impress people who know less than they do.&nbsp; I just hope they don&#039;t accidentally slab a coin worth owning and expect me to pay them for their $40 holder.&nbsp; I have zero respect for ANA regarding ancients (I dropped my membership over 40 years ago).&nbsp; Before I saw this one, I usually was close to accepting NGC as reasonable but we always fall back on the old saw &quot;buy the coin not the slab&quot;.&nbsp; Finally, I just about hurt myself when I read that the reason we need to see a coin edge is to check for reeding.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, medoraman, I promise that I will touch each and every ancient coin you send me and I know an 5th grade class full of kids studying antiquity that would be happy to get their hands on a bucketful if you have them to spare.&nbsp; If its not too much to ask, could we have ones that show characters from the Percy Jackson books (centaur, Pegasus, Poseidon etc.)?&nbsp; Don&#039;t send obols, though, since they know they go in the mouth and its flu season.&nbsp; :devil:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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