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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2523256, member: 39084&quot;]Most collectors on this site would agree strongly with this sentiment.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s completely understandable that you might want to store or exhibit your coins in a slab, to protect them when you pass them around to others interested in the coin.&nbsp; For this purpose you can purchase re-openable slabs, make your own labels, while still being able to remove the coin for close inspection as well as just to hold history in your hands.&nbsp; But purposely sending an unslabbed ancient coin to NGC or any other slabbing service will probably remain unfathomable to most of us on this site.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a thought: do you think NGC would have detected my Hadrian Hispania aureus forgery and refused to slab it?&nbsp; Very, very unlikely, and so would have continued a fraud in perpetuity.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I don&#039;t agree that this is hypocritical.&nbsp; Desirable ancient coins will sometimes end up in slabs, and it won&#039;t make me any less likely to purchase one.</p><p><br /></p><p>True story: Two weeks ago my dealer called me while at the Heritage auction.&nbsp; He noticed a slabbed aureus (seems that Heritage is slabbing all their coins) whose condition looked much better than the online picture (in a slab) illustrated.&nbsp; He called me from the auction and we set a bid.&nbsp; I won the coin for about 40% less than my maximum and probably 50% less than that coin would have brought unslabbed with a better picture.&nbsp; While the condition is only about EF, it cost 1/5 - 1/8 of what an EF example of this coin would hammer at another auction, if an EF ever came to the market.&nbsp; So slabs can work against the seller/consignor in some cases.&nbsp; Of course, my dealer will remove it from the slab before sending it on to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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