Is it ok to put ancient coins in a flip?

Thank you, @gsimonel for your comments and my apologies for not seeing your question earlier.

I print these on premium inkjet paper with my HP printer. I prefer the 32 lb. paper which is quite a bit heavier than the regular copy paper. I lightly score and fold them on the dash line and then trim them to the crop marks.

I could probably get 4 per 8.5 inch paper if I were to print them landscape but I prefer to fold them vertically because I get a sharper crease. Then I just insert them into the 2.5 inch archival SAFLIPS.

I do the layouts on a Macintosh computer in a program called Adobe InDesign.

 

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I know I’m cracking it out of the slab though

Fortunately I live in a very safe area and my family is wealthier than I am so they have no reason or need to steal from me.

But I do keep them in my safe still.

 

Have you ever considered selling those?

Like maybe charge $5/coin or whatever you feel is fair to make someone some of those labels?

I don’t have the technical skills to do it myself or I definitely would because they look super cool.

 

Ancient coins should be handled...

 

Everyone has different opinions on that .

For some coins I agree. But for others like (for example) gold staters in AU/MS condition or the really really expensive ($20,000+) coins I’ve noticed most are slabbed. I know I wouldn’t want to handle an AU/MS ancient coin because all it takes is one accident and it potentially can lose hundreds of dollars in value.

I also like for very small coins to be slabbed because they are so fragile and easy to damage. Like obols for example or denarii.

But again everyone has different opinions and neither one is “absolutely correct” or “absolutely wrong”.

The way I see it is that the person who pays for the coin and owns the coin should be able to do whatever they want with it.

If someone bought a Syracuse Dekadrachm for $60,000 and wants to drill a hole in it and wear it as a pendant it would break my heart but it’s still their property and they do have that right.

 

Do we own the coins in our possession or are we just the most recent custodians?

 

A legal right, yes. They would have the legal right to throw it in the Atlantic Ocean or launch it into outer space. Moral right? I don't think so.

 

Well yeah I meant legal right.

But slabbing a coin vs keeping it raw I think the owner has every right to decide which they prefer.

Nothing morally wrong with having some coins in slabs like it would be to drill a hole or throw in the ocean or launch into space.

 

I consider it to be both.

We are custodians but at the same time they are our legal property.

Like if someone stole your coins they couldn’t just be like:
“This coin belongs to everyone and it’s my turn to be custodian!”

You would have every right to take legal action and retrieve them. You also have the right to any financial compensation if you sell them and no one else is entitled to it.

But it’s true they are cultural artifacts and in the sense of preserving them and passing them down I think that is a responsibility we have as owners of these artifacts.