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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2571711, member: 10461&quot;]The slight flan cracks probably resulted from that great strong strike (NGC notes 5/5 quality), so they do not bother me in the least.&nbsp; The cracks do not threaten the overall integrity of the flan itself in any noticeable way, so to me they&#039;re just &quot;character&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>They may be the sole reason NGC pinged the surface rating down by one point (4/5).</p><p><br /></p><p>At risk of rekindling the occasionally tiresome and always contentious &quot;ancients in slabs&quot; discussion, I will mention that this is one of only a very few ancients I have purchased that was <i>already</i> in a plastic slab.&nbsp; I am finicky about having nice pictures of my coins and the white prongs of the NGC slabs interfere with good photos.&nbsp; This seller provided good photos which had obviously been taken before the coin was encapsulated.&nbsp; That was a big p!us for me.&nbsp; I know where the discussion is in danger of veering off next, so let me head that off by saying that I <i>do</i> have some limited use for third-party plastic in my collection, so as long as I&#039;ve got good pix with no prongs, the plastic suits my purposes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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