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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 330, member: 57463&quot;]mbbiker asked: Why don&#039;t they want them slabbed?</p><p><br /></p><p>We learn to handle modern US coins, especially Mint State, a certain way and we put them in cointainers and flips and plastic boxes, so it is odd to realize that ancient coins get HANDLED.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t drop it!!&nbsp; Silver gets as brittle as glass after 1000 or 2000 years...&nbsp; but you can handle an Owl or a denarius of the Roman empire.&nbsp; After 2000 years, there is not much you can do to it.&nbsp; They have hard, smooth or crusty surfaces.&nbsp; They have been touched by people from England to India from the Nile to the Rhine. </p><p><br /></p><p>You cannot touch the artifacts in a mueum, but you can touch your ancient coins.&nbsp; Most collectors do.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many times when a fresh look at a different angle or lighitng will reveal a detail you did not see before and seeing the coin RAW is the only way to do that.&nbsp; An extra letter can help with the identification.</p><p><br /></p><p>An Owl weighs 17 grams: it is a 75-cent piece, the diameter of a quarter and three times as thick.&nbsp; it has a heft to it that modern coins do not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember that Theodore Roosevelt wanted three-dimensional coins with high relief.&nbsp; The US Mint could not do it.&nbsp; The Greeks did it with sledge hammers.&nbsp; The coins have depth and height you do not find on the the flat discs we got accustomed to.&nbsp; You can FEEL the depth, the height.</p><p><br /></p><p>True collectors of ancients do not want their coins slabbed.&nbsp; It is a fact.&nbsp; I have had some AUTHENTICATED, but NEVER NEVER NEVER encapsulated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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