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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1644013, member: 19463&quot;]I wonder if he bought it because he knew it was part of the set including the famous triple portrait coins where Carausius tried to equate himself with Diocletian and Maximianus and issued similar coins in their names?&nbsp; I wonder if buyers of slabbed coins will care about such things or if they would just consider it another VF 3/3 which they would trade in a second for a VF 3/4 with only one G?&nbsp; If they sent the coin for a Sear certificate (something I have never done) they could get a write up on the coin along with a photo identifying the specimen.&nbsp; What comes with a slab?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have absolutely nothing against slabs except that you can not open and reclose them to examine or photograph the coin.&nbsp; Once opened, they are just wasted money.&nbsp; Counting Registered Mail how much does a slab cost?&nbsp; If they do not increase the selling price of the coin over the equivalent Raw, I can only assume that they are being produced in wholesale quantities at a lot less than the advertised prices.&nbsp; Perhaps they are being produced in China for all I know.&nbsp; Since you can&#039;t examine the coin anymore you must trust whoever sealed it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Is there nothing to be learned by handling the coins themselves?&nbsp;&nbsp; I do agree that ancients will move into slabs increasingly as a replacement for the Athena Fund shares of 20 years ago which provided a way for those who do not care about coins to invest in them with no stress of having to learn what they are.&nbsp;&nbsp; It does not bother me to see $10,000 coins slabbed because the price lost even if they are set free is minuscule compared to the coin value.&nbsp; The question is how this will effect the trade in $20 to $100 coins where this recurring expense (every time a coin is sold?) becomes significent?&nbsp; The only slabbed coin I have personally owned (and sawed out) cost me $10.&nbsp; I prefer we postpone this absurd eventuality as long as possible. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was sad to hear that no one makes a stock holder that fits a dekadrachm but I can not help thinking that anyone who can afford the coin could also afford to have a proper holder fabricated.&nbsp; Do we have slabs for Liberal aes grave yet?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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