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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 24855796, member: 10461&quot;]The problem there is that NGC, the most recognized grader of ancients, <i>does not absolutely guarantee authenticity</i> on the ancient coins they certify!</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless, since they would never knowingly slab a fake coin, I trust their knowledge, and having an ancient coin in an NGC slab is at least a <i>partial</i> umbrella of protection against counterfeits or tooled/altered coins.&nbsp; You do at least know that one group of experts have looked at it and deemed it to be OK.&nbsp; (They&#039;ll automatically bodybag any fake or altered coin they see, and note the problems on any they do grade.)&nbsp; So while they cannot <i>absolutely</i> guarantee authenticity, they <i>are</i> one layer of protection against fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a contrarian in the &quot;ancients in slabs&quot; debate, and in the minority.&nbsp; I am an unrepentant slabber.&nbsp; I do this mainly for uniformity&#039;s sake, because the rest of my collection (medieval, world, US, etc.) is in slabs.&nbsp; Plus I think the slabs display well.&nbsp; But if I collected <i>only </i>ancient coins, I probably wouldn&#039;t bother with slabs.&nbsp; They&#039;re expensive, for one thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- thanks, [USER=134416]@nerosmyfavorite68[/USER], for posting the video.&nbsp; I&#039;ll watch it later when I catch up on my chores.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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