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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2464002, member: 19463&quot;]I have to admit curious how being slabbed would affect the realization/demand for a coin like the Commodus.&nbsp; For the most part, the target market would not appreciate what the coin has to offer over a bonus for being large (too large to slab?) and you would find as many potential buyers scared off as added if the coin had been encapsulated.&nbsp; The coin has a lot of legend remaining which would make it a lot more desirable to me than a similar coin with intact laurel wreath and fewer letters.&nbsp; </p><p>We could have a thread on coins that would be a waste to slab.&nbsp; Certainly this is one.&nbsp; I suspect being AE35 would make it attractive to more people than a hundred similarly interesting types 10mm smaller.&nbsp; I wonder how NGC would feel about a surface rating for a coin with damage (we call it a countermark and reverse flat spot) and uneven tone.&nbsp; Certainly we would not want a Gordian III antoninianus with these &#039;problems&#039; but it goes without saying that this ain&#039;t no Gordian.&nbsp; The only problem I see with it is that I did not find it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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