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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 278808, member: 6370&quot;]I think it has to do with the mind set of people who collect ancients...whether they be from the US or whatever..most ancient collectors disdain slabs and will break them out...We like to be able to touch the coin itself...not the slab...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have a few slabbed coins but no ancients in slabbed, I have bought maybe 2 that were slabbed by the seller and broke them out post haste the second I got them. The arent briliant uncirculated, most have already been through a few thousand years out of a slab, why start now.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only coins I have in slabs (I put them in the slabs) are some FDC gold coins (french and german imperial) that I wanted to keep in perfect condition and protect.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Not to mention that I dont think of any of these third party grading companies as experts on ancients anyway...there ARE experts...and ancient collectors know who they are...but it would be any of the above mentioned companies and grading is a whole different world than the over complicated grading systems of monern coins...a coin that is fine might look a hell of a lot rough that a fine modern...and so on...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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