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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 990007, member: 26302&quot;]I like your post Qwasty. I hope there are no hard feelings. I really feel bad if I had anything to do with you quitting CT. This should be a place where all opinions are welcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree with how slabbing will help the ancient market. Ancients are accessible. Its just not accessible to collectors who wish to have &quot;grey sheets&quot; published, for wheeler dealers, for, in short, lazy collectors. This is what draws collectors to ancients, the fact that a coin may never be offered for sale for 20 years, the deep numismatic study required, the amount of information needed to become knowledgeable. Slabbing will not give anyone knowledge, it is facilitating laziness. It is embedding the notion that no one except a select few are capable of knowing the history of coins or where they came from. In our field, it is in fact the collectors themselves who have derived most of the information that we currently have. There are no mint reports to go back to. There are many rulers who are only known because of their coins, and even a few civilizations. </p><p><br /></p><p>What good is a slab when, forgetting the grade, the ruler or even the civilization is in doubt on an issue? How are we to learn any more when all of the ancient coins are permanently banned from study by a block of plastic? I simply do not paw over my coins with &quot;greasy fingers&quot;, I clean them, conserve them, and study them to try to further my own comprehension of where they come from. To put them in a slab is &quot;shallow commodity dollars changing hands&quot;, and yes I crack every one I ever purchase out of the slab and throw the plastic away since it offers no value and is in fact a hindrance. If you truly believe population reports mean much, you should do some research on your own and see how many crackouts and regrades are performed every year on US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you wish to collect ancients, please we would love to have you. Collect only slabs if you wish. I have even given away many books to newcomers to the hobby. If you do not educate yourself, read and study, you will still simply be trading shallow commodity dollars and not get what ancient collectors get out of the hobby. Thats fine, its your money, just not what I want to pursue. So call me arrogant, but I have never made fun of anyone or not offered help to anyone who wished it. My only arrogance has been to say you have to study and learn for yourself to maximize your pleasure of this area of numismatics, any area really.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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