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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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I guess its different from modern coins? Au or xf? Thankful for input   
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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A beauty! I would say AU.
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Pillar of the Community
 Sweden
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Thank you so generally same criteria as modern coins when grading?
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Valued Member
United States
130 Posts |
UNC, could be high end AU. Same criteria.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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 Great looking coin! |
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
1825 Posts |
Sweet thank you for helping out all
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Just so you know, ancient coins are also evaluated on 3 additional factors:
Strike
Surface
Style
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Valued Member
United States
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Yep, strike/surface 1-5(5 best)
Style fine- for high artistic quality of the die.
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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Style   Thank you for this info I wonder why the think aditional criterias is needed Edited by Moniker
09/08/2024 1:27 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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@Moniker, the simple answer is that there is too much variability in ancient coins for a single criteria to be sufficient. Those other three factors are very important to assess the desirability of a particular coin.
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Moderator
Australia
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There are some key differences between ancient and modern grading. The most important of which is to unlearn everything you've learned about "cleaned coins = bad". Because every single ancient coin in existence has been cleaned, because they all have been buried in the ground for most of the intervening period between when they were made and now. And with the exception of gold coins, every one of them came up out of the ground looking like a greenish rock. They need to be cleaned, sometimes harshly, just to make them look like coins again.
In the case of this coin, one would obviously expect a 1700 year old 50% silver coin to be at the very least quite black, probably greenish-black.This kind of blast-white appearance is, however, perfectly acceptable on this coin, where on a modern coin such treatment would probably qualify as overcleaning.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Modern coin grading is inappropriate for the grading of ancient coins. Sap has made some very salient comments regarding the grading of ancient coins. This coin: AS (As Struck) Comment: large flan chip. AS is the highest grading that can be obtained, as far as wear is concerned, - the term ' uncirculated' doesn't make much sense in regard to ancient coins. There is no obvious circulation wear to be seen, - was most probably part of a hoard. The flan chip is most probably due to silver crystallization or corrosion inside a flan crack which eventually caused the chip to fall off. Well photographed !  |
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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Oriole, sap and and sel big thank you, intesting and edjucational answers and they make sense
Yes I'm happy with first pic turned out great.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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@Moniker, do enjoy your ancient coin(s). It is remarkable that there are so many of them available for us to collect.
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Moderator
United States
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Nice example! |
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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Thank you JB
Thank you Oriole, I am enjoying them much, but will try to get some greek coins aswell
Edited by Moniker
09/10/2024 4:05 pm
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