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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2441273, member: 46237&quot;]I&#039;m not at all a collector of ancients. My collection is primarily classic world coins with some US. All coins in my primary collections are slabbed, and while I buy something like 85% of my coins raw, I submit hundreds of coins to NGC each year. I&#039;m also a vest pocket dealer and buy coins on a regular basis for resale.</p><p><br /></p><p>My responses were based on my experiences dealing with collectors of ancients. I have several friends who are primarily ancients collectors, and have spent time with the local ancients club. While I&#039;m not an expert on ancients, I get them not infrequently from several sources where I regularly buy, and I always resell them. I don&#039;t know a single local ancients collector who slabs their ancients, and I&#039;ve been told by many that a slab is a negative to them when evaluating a coin for purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it possible that slabbing a particular ancient would result in a higher price when selling online? Sure. You may, however, get a comparable price selling raw with sufficiently detailed photos. I also think if you regularly dealt in ancients and submitted them in quantity for slabbing, you&#039;d lose money on the whole.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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