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Is this gradeable/slabbable?

EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Early Italian (5th-4th cent. BC), Aes Rude, 337.25g, an irregular mass (cf. Haeberlin pl.3, 4).

Never seen this before. At 337.25g, it's about 10.5x the mass of a silver crown.

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  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,694 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting...



    However I'm not sure if it can be graded as to high points, rub, nor if it could be slabbed in a pronged holder.



    If mine I'd be far more interested in having a metallurgical composition analysis done then anything else.
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  • marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,825 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am going to go on a limb here and say I think it will be BB'd!



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  • brg5658brg5658 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a petrified pile of poo...maybe the TPGs are slabbing those now? image
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: brg5658

    Looks like a petrified pile of poo...maybe the TPGs are slabbing those now? image




    I've glanced at registry sets with worse slabbed crap image



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  • Jackthecat1Jackthecat1 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭
    A fascinating piece. No clue if it can be slabbed, though.
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  • AndresAndres Posts: 977 ✭✭✭
    Looks like it came from mount Vesuvius,
    invoice and description from Spink should be enough for authenticity , and its free of charge.
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  • neildrobertsonneildrobertson Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It already is a slab...

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,226 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Aes rude never appealed to me, mostly because I get really bad sticker shock over the prices of what are essentially lumps and blobs of metal- slag, in other words.



    Looks like a petrified pile of poo...




    Actually, that comment sums up my feelings about these perfectly.



    I do not believe NGC will grade them (for perhaps several obvious reasons). I don't think they'll grade the big Aes grave coins, either, though they may issue photocertificates for those?

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