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Ancient Coins Spanked by ICG!

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JamminJ

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Over the past few months I bought a few nice looking but inexpensive ancient coins from a local bidboard. For fun and reesearch I had them graded by ICG and boy did I ever get spanked on the grades!

 

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I was expecting grades of low-mid AU, High AU-low mint state, and low-mid AU, respectively. My local dealer who handles a a good number of ancients was also suprised by the strictness of the grades.

 

Yikes!

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JamminJ

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Who cares about the spanking, those are beautiful coins!!!!!

 

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Thanks, you do have a point about not sweating the grades. On the bright side, I may try buying a few lightly circulated ancients in ICG holders, perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprized.

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Ancient coin collectors won't look at ICG's grade. I'm finding out more and more the first thing people do is crack them out. If you have a nice mid to high end coin and want some paperwork on it, send it here....

 

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It will add to the value of your coin.

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gmarguli

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Ancient coin collectors won't look at ICG's grade. I'm finding out more and more the first thing people do is crack them out. If you have a nice mid to high end coin and want some paperwork on it, send it here....

 

Perhaps, but I recently sold an ICG slabbed ancient coin. It brought around $50. Similar condition ones were selling for $15-$25 raw. Maybe the buyer is going to crack it out, but if I'm a seller, I'll pay $10-$16 to put it in an ICG slab to make $25-$35 more on the sale.

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gmarguli

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I could be wrong. confused-smiley-013.gif Whatcha think of this coin? Not my collecting area, but I've been thinking about purchasing it. And its even toned! 893whatthe.gif

 

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I like the coin a lot. I wish it had a better shaped planchet. Wonderful design. I've wanted a "riding a dolphin" coin for a while. Not too sure about the price, but the last nicely toned ancient I saw on their site didn't last long and I regret not buying it.

 

Two other cool riding a dolphin coins they have, but almost twice the money.

 

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Go for it!

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