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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2824922, member: 76194&quot;]One of the things I found the most amusing was a thread, shortly before I switched collecting ancients, that dealt with the preservation of coins. One poster said he put his coins in plastic, pumped out the air with a vacuum, then added silica, then another layer of plastic also vacuum sealed, and finally closed everything in a box. That made me realize just how little modern collectors tend to enjoy their collections due to the obsession with grade and perfect preservation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since ancient coins no longer have the original surface intact due to burrial for thousands of years and cleaning when they are dug out, that is not a concern and you can actually enjoy holding them. That&#039;s one of the reasons I only collect ancients anymore. What&#039;s the point of collecting coins if you can&#039;t hold them and enjoy them, and you&#039;re constantly freaking out whether your coin was correctly graded MS-64, or if it is really an MS-63+, or God forbid an MS-63. Who cares? Enjoy the darn coins for what they are instead of treating them like stocks to be flipped for maximum profit, or some perishable commodity to be put away and never seen or held for fear of reducing the value of the &quot;commodity.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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