Grade Inflation Of Ancient Coins Over The Years.

OK I know it has been a year since I posted this, but again, another old typed estate rates this coin below at a Fine Plus. Would you folks agree or have the standards changed a bit as for type, thus considering others of the series, is this not VF?

At best I would grade that coin as aFine. In one of Wayne Sayles books he explains that system used to grade ancient coins. I try to hold to that when I grade my coins.

Yes but for a late Roman, they held well over time. But these tetradrachms of Alexandria, they certainly did not. XF for a late Roman is near perfect agreed, plentiful enough and with many fine examples. But you can't use the same metric for all ancient coins.

I really like the OP's approach to grading ancient coins.
A bit different, but perfectly OK.
From my experience, the most professional dealers of ancient coins are fairly resistant to grade inflation.

I notice that there has been some grade inflation over the years, with TPG slabbed coins.

Like any other coin, grade is critical to value.
I will happily accept any dealers grade,
provided that
it comes with honest qualifying comments
and
I examine the coin in hand, before making a decision to buy. That putes more responsibility back onto myself, I can live with caveat emptor.
That obliges me to attend public auction lot viewing days. You need time and convenience to do this, for which I feel very fortunate.

Well whatever the answer, it seems if you type in "ef for type" or "very fine for type" with quotations so the phrase is as written in acsearch you find just about everyone from cng down is using that as a grading system. So it has evolved into this even if it was a pure system for all ancient coins not considering when and where produced.

I absolutely agree with the idea that an ancient coin has to have it's own picture.
It would be counter productive to the sale of the coin to do otherwise.

FVRIVS RVFVS

Obviously a bartender is best if they don't drink, a car dealer should not drive a fancy car, casino dealers should not play the games, the list goes on and on in life that mixing business with a hobby is not good for business. There are plenty of collectors in ancients who deal coins, but they love the coins so well they know if they got in a large low priced lot a coin for $3 and it is worth $60, they will list it at a $40 reserve and wait forever for the person to appreciate the coin as much as they did. A dealer who does not collect just collects knowledge like the New York diamond merchants who never wear diamonds. I remember a Bulgarian man wrote to me and said I was wrong to start all coins at $1 that are worth a lot more as I "cheapen the coin like treating a beautiful woman like a tramp". (I sincerely hope that sounds better in Bulgarian then the translation sounded when I read the message.) But to me only waiting for a a 400% profit for a sale just seems totally not right to do so I follow the old saying of not mixing business with pleasure and collect nothing which allows these coins to trade as any other commodity based on supply and demand. Much easier to be successful if you don't collect in my opinion and common practice for any other industry of traded goods.