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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3448684, member: 76086&quot;]This is an old topic but its always interesting to read as opinions change and members who have not commented before have done so now.&nbsp; I dislike slabs and wont have anything to do with them.&nbsp; I&#039;m old fashioned.&nbsp; As a dealer if I get a coin in a slab I will leave it be and pass it on as is.&nbsp; As a collector I will break it out.&nbsp; Thats my personal preference and I dont seek to change anyones mind on the topic.&nbsp; But I also understand and respect why others want slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is the future?&nbsp; As more modern collectors move into collecting ancients slabs will only become more common.&nbsp; This is an undeniable truth.&nbsp; We will have to just live with it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Dealing with slabs themselves is really quite easy and a non-issue.&nbsp; You either take the coin out or you dont, you submit it for slabbing or you dont.&nbsp; But the truth behind the issue is a more selfish one.&nbsp; What people really want to know is how slabbing will affect prices.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I see from their website bulk submissions are $20 each, though I suspect large companies like Heritage get a huge discount.&nbsp; Still, it wont make any economic sense to slab the most common coins, nor lower grades.&nbsp; Yes, I know there are already lots of them out there, mostly done by speculators or those who know nothing about the ancients market.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Currently the values for slabbed ancients remain largely unchanged for raw coins.&nbsp; Most people are not willing to pay any premium for a piece of plastic and an opinion (something every ancient coin dealer already does now for no extra cost, its just the plastic is a 2x2 flip and not a hard case).&nbsp; Slabbed ancients are currently the domain of Heritage where they peddle overpriced coins to the unsuspecting public (but then again I have also seen them sell coins at prices in which someone obviously lost most of the money they invested in the coin/slab).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the market is changing, and not in a direction that I prefer.&nbsp; But I am a bit older now and I wont have to see or deal with how those changes might affect the market in a significant way (maybe, I figure I have 20 years of life left, but could be 40!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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