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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1643787, member: 42773&quot;]NGC already slabs ancients, but I don&#039;t know how much of the market share is available to them. I hear most collectors of ancients denigrate the TPGs, and with due cause, so I&#039;m not sure the slabs will make the coins any more desirable. From what I&#039;ve heard, it makes them less so, owing to the peculiar aesthetics of collectors of ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had my own experience in this regard concerning a piece being offered by David Hall recently, a Falling Horseman of Constantius II. It&#039;s a beautiful piece, beautifully preserved, but NGC saying so does not make it worth what David Hall is asking. I offered half, and was refused without a counter-offer. So I&#039;ve been watching it sit on a shelf, and every few days they put it on sale for 5% off - whoopty doo. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry, but for the same price I could buy a nice little bit of Byzantine gold. It&#039;s an LRB for crying out loud. Nowhere in the field of ancients do you find more well-preserved coins than in the LRBs. But it is what it is, a top-tier dealer trying to sell a coin in a top-tier slab for top-tier dollars. It might work for an Aureus, but a bronze? I&#039;m not so sure - we&#039;ll see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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