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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;snewman, post: 1184960, member: 31036&quot;]I scanned through a few pages here and didn&#039;t see any massive opinion wars about slabbing ancients, so I thought I&#039;d ask some opinions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I re-started my adult collecting by collecting a coin from each century of an interesting ruler as far back as I could go.&nbsp; It forced me to learn a bit more too.&nbsp; I had always enjoyed Roman History, but the rest was a black hole.&nbsp; I learned that King Edward &quot;Longshanks&quot; did a lot of good for England that didn&#039;t make it into Braveheart and many other things across the centuries.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;ll start a thread asking people to post their favorite collection of ancients by century as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The oldest I picked up was this coin from Pantikapaion (sp?) near the Black Sea.&nbsp; Attributed it as Seaby 1701 - Lion and Sturgeon with a beardless Pan.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thairunts/coins-wheats/Pan_Greek.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have it in a flip, which seems to be protecting it well enough.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t THAT valuable a coin, but I enjoy handling slabs for some reason.&nbsp; Seems more substantial to have a huge hunk of plastic in my hand than just a coin?&nbsp; Anyway, Ancient coins aren&#039;t usually perfectly round and I&#039;m not sure how well these coins get &quot;set&quot; into a slab - see the shape of my Vespasian Judea Capta denarius:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thairunts/coins-wheats/vespasian_judea_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://sites.google.com/site/thairunts/coins-wheats/vespasian_judea_r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin, I think I&#039;d be more interested in slabbing because of condition and value.&nbsp; I&#039;m not positive, but I think it may be toning darker in the vault, but the shape seems to be a deterrent?&nbsp; NGC appears to be doing world coins/ancients, but I&#039;ve not heard good or bad about them.&nbsp; Are others more reputable/better?&nbsp; Does slabbing them make them easier/harder to determine counterfeits?&nbsp; Any thoughts and theories appreciated.</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Scott[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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