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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2076710, member: 26302&quot;]Um, well we have been dealing with fake ancient coins for centuries before the first pilgrim shot a turkey, so I do not understand how &quot;ancients aren&#039;t a prime market for counterfeits&quot;. Maybe in the last 15 years US coins have been counterfeited more, idk, but please do not say that the 500+ years we have dealt with active counterfeiters is meaningless.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Btw, no, I do not want the &quot;safety of the slab&quot;, I want the safety that comes from knowledge and trusting respected dealers. The slab is a modern imitation of this, its not the other way around. Coin collectors have educated themselves and used trusted dealers to avoid buying fakes for hundreds of years before the first ANACS slab came into being. I can touch and hold my coins, get a physical connection to it. Can you say you feel the same connection touching modern sterile plastic? I do the same even with my US coins, pulling out a Flowing hair half dollar to touch whenever I feel like it. If my US coins were all in plastic, I would have sold them decades ago. No sense owning something you cannot touch IMHO. Might as well just visit coins in a museum, same affect.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just to clarify, I do agree with slabs or only buying from a very respected dealer for coins like 1916d dimes, 09sVDB cents, or any coins if the collector has no knowledge. I also keep some coins in slabs like high grade gold since I cannot safely touch them anyway due to fingerprints. However, any coin that I can freely touch without damaging it I immediately crack out of a slab if it happened to come in one. I wish to touch and &quot;play&quot; with my coins. I am darn serious about fake slabs though. US collectors better stop being lazy and relying solely on slabs as their defense, since soon this will be a false security. Not all are, there are some excellent, knowledgable US collectors here, but I see way to many collectors at shows, etc who have no idea how to grade or authenticate, and ONLY rely on what the slab says. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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