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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1529295, member: 19463&quot;]If you must slab an ancient, don&#039;t get a bargain slab.&nbsp; The denarius of Augustus below may not be worth it but my level of (lack of) expertise would require either a Sear certificate or a NGC for the gold.&nbsp; When you buy a slabbed coin you are stating that you trust the inspector that inserted the coin enough that you don&#039;t need to see the edges or handle the coin to feel good about the authenticity call.&nbsp;&nbsp; No one guarantees ancients when they are slabbed so it becomes your problem a lot sooner than would be the case with a modern.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know who you bought the coin from.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know who graded it but we do know that they thought more of it than Mat did so there is at least one collector who would say it is overgraded and might hesitate to pay $3k for it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78110" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78110" rel="nofollow">http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78110</a></p><p><a href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78110" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78110" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78110" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78110" rel="nofollow">I</a>f you are new to this list you may not remember the above post showing Marcus Aurelius in a Commodus holder.&nbsp; I have seen Elagabalus and Caracalla mixes also.&nbsp; In those cases you are talking about coins worth about the same price and possibly less than the cost of slabbing (unless you got in on a sale) so there is no foul.&nbsp; Right?&nbsp; It is all a matter of trust.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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