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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7830249, member: 19463&quot;]I see this as a very, very good thing.&nbsp; Those of us who would remove a coin from a slab would be quite usset to find out that the slab made it impossible to see a serious problem.&nbsp; I might add that NGC seems hard on coins with minor scratches often mentioning them on the label but looking through plastic can make it harder to see those light marks so they are saving those who will crack from an unpleasant surprise.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, the protection of provenance requires that an illustration in the old catalog be of sufficient quality to be sure that the coin is the same and not a cast made from that coin.&nbsp; Dattari-Savio pencil rubbings and many old images made from plaster casts can identify a coin in hand as having been the &#039;sort of&#039; same as the one in the catalog but I would stop short of relying on that &#039;insurance&#039; considering the number of casts that could have been made assuming that the coins in these old books were good in the first place.&nbsp; Provenance is good evidence but not always as conclusive as one might hope. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345374[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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