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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 3824493, member: 82549&quot;]I agree with most of the comments above, and I also think that people new to the hobby, particularly those coming from collecting moderns, are often a bit overwhelmed by it. Many have assumed that <i>all </i>ancient coins were rare and valuable and could be seen only in museums, and are therefore very suspicious of them. They are afraid of getting ripped off, either by buying a fake or by paying much more that what a coin is really worth. So slabbed coins offer some degree of assurance that at least the coin is real and not fake. Of course, the irony is that while buying a slabbed coin reduces your chances of buying a fake--although it does not eliminate--it increases your chances of paying too much for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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