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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 24856891, member: 134416&quot;]Yes, there are advantages and disadvantages of slabbing.&nbsp; I can understand wanting the storage to be uniform.</p><p><br /></p><p>The folks at numisforums recently brought up something which I forgot to mention.&nbsp; Slabbing ancients makes it much more difficult to detect non super-obvious fakes. I.e. one can&#039;t see the edge.&nbsp; It also becomes harder to detect smoothing and tooling.&nbsp; It&#039;s also the pits when the slab doesn&#039;t include the weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Staunch traditionalists prefer raw coins in fancy coin trays.&nbsp; While this looks attractive, I don&#039;t like how the coin jostles around and I had a bad experience.&nbsp; I had an inexpensive common coin in a tray, and it popped out, hitting the floor and chipping.&nbsp; I use flips.&nbsp; The flip is the best compromise I&#039;ve found insofar as minimal handling and being able to see what&#039;s inside.&nbsp; One can also prop up a flip, like a kickstand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use the safe-flips generally.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never noticed any problems with the older coins in soft, 1990&#039;s era PVC flips, except for one junk box Valerian debased AR Antoninianus.&nbsp; It developed some cherry-red fields!&nbsp; The soft flips do fuse to the ink of the ID tags, however.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin&#039;s also less visible in a slab.&nbsp; I have a Tiberius III Solidus which is the shiniest, most mirror-like gold coin I have.&nbsp; I would never be able to appreciate the full shine in a slab.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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