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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Volodya, post: 2446026, member: 19615&quot;]I can&#039;t stand slabbed ancients--as I&#039;ve posted here, the one and only slabbed coin I ever purchased personally was liberated in well under an hour, even though I was in NY at the show and had to track down tools.</p><p><br /></p><p>But...</p><p><br /></p><p>The case Vagi made to me in a very forthright conversation a couple of years ago remains cogent: Although he <b>agrees </b>with traditional collectors who believe passionately that ancient coins are properly viewed without intervening plastic and should be free to be handled and examined from all angles, slabbing ancients <i>is </i>inevitably going to happen more and more. A lot of collectors transitioning from US coins absolutely expect it and will pay for it. Many of them simply <b>will not</b> buy &quot;raw&quot; ancient coins. It&#039;s all very well to say we should educate them; meanwhile in the real world, where there&#039;s a buck to be made, business-people <i>are </i>going to step in and fill the niche. No way that genii is going back into the bottle. Given <i>that </i>reality (David argued) isn&#039;t it better if the slabbing is overseen by someone like him--and now Barry--who truly does know and appreciate ancient coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>I had no real rebuttal then. I still don&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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