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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1908590, member: 42773&quot;]As far as I can tell, NGC slabs have only made a tiny inroad into the market. A search of eBay, for instance, shows 47,306 sales since Jan 2014, including 747 NGC-certified coins. That&#039;s a measly 1.5% share. I didn&#039;t look at every single one of those sales, but the overall impression I got was that the slabbed coins did not sell for much of a premium over what they would have sold for raw. Yes, there was the occasional hammer price that indicated a bidding war, but that happens all over eBay, regardless the items sold.</p><p><br /></p><p>David Vagi is doing what every good businessman does: promote his product to create demand. The question is, are serious collectors of ancient coins going to start demanding slabs? I doubt it. NGC is approaching this market as if it was similar to the US coins market. US collectors have gone slab crazy. If you post a nice raw coin in the US forum, you summon the slab zombies.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]326976[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just a little fun guys, don&#039;t take it personally! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I really don&#039;t think you can generate the same sort of interest among collectors of ancients. I would advise NGC to study their potential buyers and offer a product that collectors of ancient coins actually find useful. Otherwise, that measly share just isn&#039;t going to increase.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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