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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2446482, member: 39084&quot;]It&#039;s unfortunate that you&#039;ve decided not to detail your thinking about your decision, and I understand that name-calling and labels can be sufficient reason to decide not to respond.&nbsp; If you infer that I personally think you&#039;ve &quot;sold out&quot; then I want to apologize and correct this impression -- I don&#039;t think this at all -- and again encourage you to share your thoughts on this topic.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I had the range of knowledge about ancients that some dealers and collectors here have, I could be genuinely motivated to take my expertise to a slabbing/grading service that I thought could be improved to provide real, added value to collectors of ancients. </p><p><br /></p><p>My personal opinion that slabbing ancients adds no value <i>for me</i> is exactly that -- a <i>personal</i> opinion that may not be shared by others.&nbsp; It&#039;s an opinion that&#039;s also relative to the particular grade of coins that I collect, and further reinforced by my only buying coins that have been viewed and evaluated by my dealer, who has close to 40 years&#039; experience in the ancient coin arena. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I wrote previously, if I were a novice collector of ancient coins in a different price range, I would feel much more comfortable buying coins that in some way had been evaluated and judged by an expert.&nbsp; If slabbing is the way to provide that level of comfort to a beginner, it&#039;s a viewpoint that I&#039;d like to see illuminated and discussed (in a civil manner) on this site.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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