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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4508487, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;m sure the NGC ancients people are busy enough not to need to expand what they do, but I think there would be a market for more people and companies to offer a service like what David Sear provides: to identify and authenticate (and perhaps also to grade) ancient coins <u>without</u> encasing them in a slab.&nbsp; A certificate reflecting such conclusions would obviously have to include photographs of the coin that were sufficiently detailed to tie that certificate to the specific coin, and preclude somebody switching coins on a potential buyer.&nbsp; A lot of people who hate slabs might be interested in that kind of service, and I don&#039;t know why more people don&#039;t provide it.&nbsp; (Yes, the kind of certificate I&#039;m talking about could theoretically be faked, but, after all, so can a slab.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, when I buy from a reputable, well-known dealer (which I do for 99% of the ancient coins I buy), I always save to my computer, and print out, the dealer&#039;s photographs of the coin, which serve the same purpose for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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