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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3504337, member: 10461&quot;]Indeed, that &quot;second pair of eyes&quot; (and expert eyes at that, to give David Vagi &amp; Co. their due), is one of the tally marks on the &quot;plus&quot; column for slabs. </p><p><br /></p><p>For me, the pluses and minuses pretty much balanced out for years, and I slabbed my ancients mostly for consistency with the rest of my collection, which is all slabbed or eventually destined to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did always lament not being able to touch and hold my ancient coins directly, but I&#039;m accustomed enough to slabs with my other stuff, and really I view my collection online most of the time, since the coins themselves stay in my safe deposit box. </p><p><br /></p><p>Only in recent months did my dissatisfaction with NGC slabs grow, and when the numbers of slabbed ancients I owned dwindled down to five, it just made more sense to liberate those five instead of submitting the <i>other</i> five.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which isn&#039;t to say I have (many) grudges against NGC.&nbsp; They&#039;re a fine service, but I hate their capsules with the intrusive white prongs (almost everyone knows my pet peeve about <i>that</i>. <font size="3">*grumble </font><font size="2">* mumble</font> <font size="1">* mutter*</font>)&nbsp; Then I had an issue with them last summer, and also this weird slab bloat problem struck, and that was the final straw.&nbsp; But I still trust their opinion and hope they improve their plastic.&nbsp; Not that I&#039;ll be submitting any more ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>I certainly hope to have more than ten ancients in my collection in the near future!</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- thanks as always for the eyecandy post.&nbsp; Your coins are a symphony for the sight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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