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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 8421140, member: 81887&quot;]Slabbing is definitely a very personal decision.&nbsp; I don&#039;t like slabs for ancients and, if this were my coin, I would crack it.&nbsp; However, I can&#039;t deny that slabbed ancients are more fungible in the general (i.e., non-ancient-specialist) coin collecting world, so if you leave this coin in its slab it will be easier to eventually resell on the general market.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Mithradates who famously fought Rome is Mithradates VI of Pontus, who, as his title implies, was from the Kingdom of Pontus and not from Parthia.&nbsp; He did have Persian ancestry, hence the name Mithradates (&quot;given by Mithra&quot;, an ancient Iranian sun god) but that&#039;s the closest to a Parthian connection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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