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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2446383, member: 39084&quot;]This is certainly part of the intention on the part of the slabbers -- increasing their market (and profits) by providing a pseudo-service that makes it easier for novices to buy ancient coins.&nbsp; So I, too, understand this reasoning although I certainly don&#039;t support it.&nbsp; If slabbing were a real service with some sort of guarantee -- pretty much an impossibility for ancient coins -- then I might be more favorably disposed toward this trend.&nbsp; But it&#039;s not, and I&#039;m not.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I can honestly say that I know whereof I speak in this price range, and I have no intention of ever slabbing my coins, or buying a slabbed coin unless I can&#039;t live without it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Accurate, but sometimes the &quot;inevitable&quot; ends up not happening, so I&#039;m not resigned to this fate.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Uniqueness is the reason that I don&#039;t think it&#039;s inevitable that all ancients will end up being slabbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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