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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1185368, member: 26302&quot;]I own one ancient slab, misidentifying the ruler, year struck, and mint. I keep it for giggles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, just recently the Octodrachm that was withdrawn by Berk was slabbed. Slabbing ancients does not guarantee their authenticity, the ONLY thing I would find it valuable for. </p><p><br /></p><p>My other problem with slabbing is that they use US grading for ancients. Grading ancient coins has been around for hundreds of years before we were shooting turkeys, and now they think they have the right to impose US grading onto this field?</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, there is controversy around slabbing ancients. Most ancient collectors are fervently against it, and most of us do buy slabs, (if a good buy, completely ignoring slab cost), and crack them out. I admit I have bought a slab or two just for the good feeling I get from cutting it open.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slabs, to me, are for people new to ancients. Any time I see an ancient collector with a bunch of slabs I just assume they have close to zero knowledge of the coins, and I am usually right. I had one show me his &quot;ancient error coin&quot; slabbed, all excited about how much he thought it was worth. I told him it is worth 3 times the price if he can find a NON ERROR one! (common byzantine poor coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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