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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3823864, member: 83845&quot;]Mostly modern US coin collectors testing the ancient coin waters and a minority of auction houses who started out in US coins and moved into selling ancients. There are also a very few serious ancient collectors who like slabbing as a matter of course but they are not very common.</p><p><br /></p><p>TPGs are a largely US phenomenon and the practice is more accepted in the collector community in the US (for modern stuff that is).&nbsp; Ancient coin collecting is more global for obvious reasons and the TPGs don’t have a stranglehold on foreign markets.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look through the records of the big auctions houses that specialize in ancient coins you will see that ALMOST ALL of their coins are sold un-slabbed. Harlan Berk even has a “crack out Monday” video on their homepage right now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don’t take my word for it either. Check out the ratio of slabbed vs un-slabbed coins at the big auctions for yourself below.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://nomosag.com/default.aspx?page=ucHome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nomosag.com/default.aspx?page=ucHome" rel="nofollow">https://nomosag.com/default.aspx?page=ucHome</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.romanumismatics.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.romanumismatics.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.romanumismatics.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://arsclassicacoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://arsclassicacoins.com/" rel="nofollow">http://arsclassicacoins.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.hjbltd.com/#!/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hjbltd.com/#!/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hjbltd.com/#!/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This list could go on and on...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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