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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 1904834, member: 44183&quot;]<font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff">Funny ... yah, I even keep my modern-coins in sweet ol&#039;-school albums, so I end-up cracking &quot;everything&quot; out of their slabs =&gt; ancients, moderns, etc ... man, I can&#039;t stand slabs!!</span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; However, I don&#039;t intend on ever selling my coins, so the slabs are merely keeping me from enjoying my coins (it&#039;s a bit like buying a cool ol&#039; classic car and then being satisfied with keeping it underneath a car-cover in the garage .... that&#039;s weak, brothers) </span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff">Oh, and as far as &quot;grading&quot; ancient coins goes =&gt; ever since Doug scoffed at a few of my seller&#039;s grades, I don&#039;t even post the grades of my ancient coins anymore ... anyway, the grades certainly seem very random where ancients coins are concerned ... </span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; I am a far greater fan of merely posing-down coins against each other to determine how much a coin is worth (in other words, before I decide to bid on a coin, I will do a coin-search and find several &quot;similar&quot; coin-types and research their selling prices) .... I find this a far more useful measure than relying on a &quot;VG&quot; rating by the dude that I&#039;m about to buy a coin from ... </span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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