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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oldfinecollector, post: 4124724, member: 110740&quot;]Hi, I understand perfectly slab for modern coins and some older too.</p><p><br /></p><p>My antics have a patina ans are no in a slab even XF ones&nbsp; some nearly FDC. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t use glove and all famous antics collector’s and dealers like to feel antic coins that survive for so many centuries, my oldest is dated from around 600 BC... they are in safe preservation in a good coin quality wood cabinet. Of course you need to know how to handle them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everybody do how he want and slabs and grading can add pleasure as soon you are still true collectors not only investor or speculator without numismatic education.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just think that the most famous US coin collectors in 1950 or 1960 didn’t slab them and that in auction now some of&nbsp; their coins are slated with highest grade and sold for incredible&nbsp; amount of money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slab is not a guarantee of pedigree and authenticity, you got more forgeries in slab with great&nbsp; grading that you can imagine. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if you don’t know the feeling of touching different coins you will never be able to detect a forgery. Ask about famous experts and knowledgeable dealers about that how they learned and opinion&nbsp; it can be very instructive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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