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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2571270, member: 10461"]In this particular case, and with most of the relatively few ancients in my "Eclectic Box of 20", I buy them "naked" and then "clothe" (most would say "entomb") them in the plastic after I make sure a good set of photos exists, because of the aforementioned issue of the stupid white NGC prongs. Yes, I am an unrepentant (or partially unrepentant) slabber of ancients, but only on a very small scale.  As of this post I have four in plastic and two raw but headed into plastic. I do the plastic for consistency's sake, mostly, since my Box of 20 is a slabbed collection.  Since all of the more "modern" pieces are graded and in plastic, so go the ancients.  When I sell them, the next owners may always liberate them if desired. I very, very seldom buy ancient coins already in slabs, because that market pricing is just silly, for the most part. (And there's the photo interference issue from the prongs again). The slabs work for me right now, for this particular small collection.  But in the past and no doubt in the future, I have and will enjoy my ancients raw, in hand, the good old fashioned way.  I see both sides of the contentious "ancients in slabs" issue, and straddle the fence.[/QUOTE]