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<p>[QUOTE="cwart, post: 3446949, member: 18487"]For parts of my modern collection I am a slab person, either for verification of the coin's authenticity or just for some extra protection for the coin itself. But when buying a slabbed coin I still use the same criteria I would when buying a raw coin or an ancient. I am looking for a coin that has eye appeal. I am collecting Peace Dollars in MS64, that doesn't mean that I am looking for any old 64 though. It needs to looks nice for the grade (no milk spots, relatively few marks... etc).</p><p><br /></p><p>To me an ancient needs to have the same thing, eye appeal (well centered, most of the flan present, nicely struck, pleasing patina). I am still new enough to ancients that I can claim to not understand the first thing about grading them, but to me that's not important at this point. I am looking for those coins that interest me and appeal to me. For that reason (and the fact that I am collecting fairly low value coins) I am definitely in the no slab camp when it comes to ancients.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cwart, post: 3446949, member: 18487"]For parts of my modern collection I am a slab person, either for verification of the coin's authenticity or just for some extra protection for the coin itself. But when buying a slabbed coin I still use the same criteria I would when buying a raw coin or an ancient. I am looking for a coin that has eye appeal. I am collecting Peace Dollars in MS64, that doesn't mean that I am looking for any old 64 though. It needs to looks nice for the grade (no milk spots, relatively few marks... etc). To me an ancient needs to have the same thing, eye appeal (well centered, most of the flan present, nicely struck, pleasing patina). I am still new enough to ancients that I can claim to not understand the first thing about grading them, but to me that's not important at this point. I am looking for those coins that interest me and appeal to me. For that reason (and the fact that I am collecting fairly low value coins) I am definitely in the no slab camp when it comes to ancients.[/QUOTE]
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