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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 1643930, member: 44357&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">I don&#039;t think NGC would be the cause of the prices doubling - it would just be more collectors moving into the market. I also don&#039;t see slabbed coins realizing a premium versus if they weren&#039;t slabbed, but I do see them increasing the appeal of ancients. Counterfeits are much harder to find in Ancients than in US coins and while NGC doesn&#039;t guarantee its legitimacy, David Vagi&#039;s opinion is enough for me.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Additionally, NGC slabbing ancients brings some degree of normalcy in grading and &quot;details&quot; grading. Out of anything, NGC&#039;s detection of edge problems, surface issues, etc. is where I see the greatest value. I&#039;ve tracked the previous sales of many, many coins and it&#039;s scary to see just how much variation there is in the opinions from auction houses. NGC, on the other hand, has been very accurate from what I&#039;ve seen, and much stricter than any auction house.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>My personal collection is composed of world, US, and Ancient coins, all sitting in a box. My latest purchase, the Euainetos dekadrachm I posted in another thread, is a very difficult coin to store alongside my others as it is very high relief - it doesn&#039;t fit in an AirTite, CoinWorld holder, or any other holder I&#039;ve found. Most of my aurei are in CoinWorld holders which works fine, but I&#039;m going to be getting everything slabbed by NGC in the next couple months. I&#039;m not planning on selling for a long time but I prefer them that way. I would love it if NGC would remove the prongs from their holders and just have an unobstructed view of the coin, but that&#039;s why I&#039;m having pictures taken outside of their holders.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know Ancient collectors love the feel of their coins in the raw (as do I, especially with the heavy octadrachms and dekadrachm in my collection), but in the interest of being able to show high grade coins to others and let them hold the coins without me breaking into a sweat at them creating wear on a mint state aureus, and to be able to hold them more often myself, I don&#039;t mind the plastic entombment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Early US copper collectors have been of the same mentality, that raw coins are preferred, but some of the largest copper dealers just moved to almost completely slabbed in the last few months. I think it will take a lot longer for ancients to move into slabs more often but I think it will happen over time.</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, buy the coin, not the holder, but personally, I&#039;m much more willing to buy an aureus graded by NGC problem free with a solid strike/surface over the internet without having to inspect it in-hand than I would be buying an ungraded one.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can always crack it out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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