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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2523075, member: 10461&quot;]I will concede one other point to the opposition.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC&#039;s white &quot;prongs&quot; also interfere terribly with getting good photos of a coin after it has been encapsulated.&nbsp; They hang over the edge and for all practical purposes they take four &quot;bites&quot; out of the visible areas of obverse and reverse.&nbsp; For this reason, I only purchase my ancients raw, unless a good set of pre-slab photos exist.&nbsp; (Never mind the additional fact that already-slabbed ancients tend to be horrifically overpriced.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Over on CU, I posted this parody of what a 9mm Guatemalan gold 4-reales piece might look like when grasped in the ghastly white &quot;fangs&quot; of an NGC edgeview insert:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Guatemala4R-NGC%20simulation.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, so I exaggerated a bit for comedic effect.&nbsp; But you get the point, even if my parody didn&#039;t get any LOLs over on CU.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I weren&#039;t working on a slabbed &quot;Box of 20&quot; collection (to which I wanted to add a few ancients), I would still collect my ancients raw, as I did with my original Roman Imperial collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>This current Box of 20 set and the Twelve Caesars set I posted above have been my exceptions to the rule.&nbsp; Otherwise, I&#039;m like the traditionalists who like to hold their coins with no intervening plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I really do see it both ways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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