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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 972641, member: 66&quot;]Since most of the older slabs that had upgrade potential have already been cracked, the only real advantage th older slabs have for proofs is an assurance of stability.&nbsp; If you have a old holder with a proof coin in it and the coin is not showing any tendency to tone and not spots have developed then you can be pretty comfortable with the idea that the coin is not going to turn on you.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ASE is a good example of this with their tendency to develop milkspots.&nbsp; If you have a N(ew)GH (Most slabs being sold as Old Green Holders are actually new green holders.&nbsp; You don&#039;t see too many true OGH anymore.) with an ASE with no toning or spots you know it hasn&#039;t turned in over ten years and it isn&#039;t likely to.&nbsp; But if it is in a recent holder you don&#039;t know what might happen in the next year.&nbsp; And there is some anecdotal evidence that if milkspotting is going to occur, it seems to happen more quickly AFTER the ASE is slabbed.&nbsp; So a raw one that is perfectly fine may have bad spotting a year from now after it is slabbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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