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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1908254, member: 19463&quot;][QUOTE=&quot;josh&#039;s coins, post: 1907929, member: 51487&quot; From a dealers point of view a coin slabbed by PCGS generally speaking instills more confidence in the potential buyer because he/she knows the coin is authentic and is roughly around the grade on the sticker.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post photos of PCGS slabbed ancients.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen one.&nbsp; I own zero slabs and most serious collectors of ancients avoid them or break them open when they do get a slabbed coin.&nbsp; Slabbed ancients are made to appeal to general collectors who want some ancients but don&#039;t want to learn much about them.&nbsp; The only slab company I have any respect for is NGC but I will not pay one cent extra for a coin in their slab either.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are slab look holders containing coins that have not been seen by anyone who knows anything about ancients so don&#039;t buy plastic; buy coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; If the hobby gets to the point that we have trouble finding Raw ancients to collect, I may have to retire but at my age I probably should stop buying so many anyway.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For most of my collecting life I preferred to keep coins in open trays but when my collection got to about 3000 pieces I realized that these were wasting space and I started putting more coins into paper envelopes which fit in the safe deposit box more easily.&nbsp; If I only had a few hundred coins, I still would use trays where I could handle them easily.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/108912613.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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