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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1857041, member: 25357&quot;]I don&#039;t even like plastic coffins on modern US coins.&nbsp; It just takes away from the pleasure I get from holding a coin in hand.&nbsp; But I can certainly understand why it&#039;s done.&nbsp; It adds a measure of security to be able to verify authenticity.&nbsp; For MS coins, it lends some legitimacy to slight differentiations in grade say between MS64 and MS65.&nbsp; But again for modern US coins you are dealing with identical coins, struck with identical(or very close) dies using a uniform process. </p><p><br /></p><p>Slabbing ancients seems almost sacrilegious to me.&nbsp; Too many die variations for the same coin, many have spent centuries exposed to the elements so there&#039;s more of a range of decomposition than you will find on modern coins.&nbsp; I know there are some fake&nbsp; ancients out there, but it doesn&#039;t seem as prevalent. </p><p>Besides part of the appeal of ancients to me is to actually hold the coin in hand and wonder who touched those same surfaces thousands of years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>So TJC...I salute you for releasing the Green Giant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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