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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Milo W, post: 26131413, member: 148792&quot;]I was recently at my local coin shop, and a slab caught my eye. It was an NGC vault box slab of Faustina the Elder. It was buffed to a mirror shine and on a tiny little flan. It was priced at 35$ - considerably less than the 235$ per coin you get from vault boxes! You can glean the story from this little slab - Someone uninformed gambled on a vault box, lost a ton of money, and sold their meager winnings for less than $ 30$. Not a great way to get into the hobby!</p><p><br /></p><p>It just goes to show the quality of coinage you get from these vault boxes - for $235, you are almost certainly going to get a coin worth 10% of that. These vault boxes are almost certainly harming the hobby. Newcomers who don&#039;t know better will lose big, pushing them away from ancient coins (and numismatics in general)! Gambling has no place in numismatics. If you are considering buying a vault box, don&#039;t![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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