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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3503761, member: 10461&quot;]I came to a crossroads recently.&nbsp; After the recent purge and subsequent newps I made last month, I have five ancients in NGC slabs (one of them defective due to the very annoying &quot;trapped gas&quot; bloat problem), and five raw ones that were &quot;needing&quot; to be slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than spend the time and expense and hassle of grading the raw ones (and reholdering the ones in defective slabs), what&#039;s to stop me from cracking out the five now in plastic? (I&#039;d save the labels.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Very, very little. If I&#039;m to do that, now is the time.&nbsp; And I&#039;ve been thinking of doing it for a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would save <i>future</i> expense and hassle, too, allowing me to spend more on <i>coins</i> instead of plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could keep my ancient and pre-1000 AD stuff happily raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of my medieval and later stuff will continue to go to PCGS on the rare occasions when I make submissions rather than just buying those coins already slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ancient portion of my collection has dwindled to the point where this makes more sense now.&nbsp; The ten I have left are half slabbed and half raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed, once I make the transition from plastic, the ancient portion of my collection will likely grow again. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Too cheap to slab&quot;?&nbsp; No longer a problem.&nbsp; &quot;Ineligible type&quot;?&nbsp; No longer a problem.&nbsp; NGC won&#039;t slab Axumite or Kushan coins?&nbsp; No longer a problem.&nbsp; White prongs interfering with photography?&nbsp; No longer a problem.&nbsp; Weird gas-bloated slabs?&nbsp; No longer a problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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