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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7980899, member: 10461&quot;]I admit it- I&#039;m a slabber.&nbsp; Two decades on the PCGS forums, immersed in that culture, had its effect on me.&nbsp; But I learned pretty quickly not to shop much for ancients <i>already</i> in slabs unless one wants to pay through the nose for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>(<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-roman-empire-silver-denarius-of-septimius-severus-dea-caelestis-type-ca-193-211-ad.286586/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-roman-empire-silver-denarius-of-septimius-severus-dea-caelestis-type-ca-193-211-ad.286586/">This one</a> was the sole exception, and the only time I&#039;ve bought one already slabbed.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I buy raw, and make sure there&#039;s a good set of photos <i>before</i> the coin is submitted and encapsulated in those intrusive white prongs which will interfere in all future photographs of it. <i>Then </i>I send it off.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I will say I was happy with NGC&#039;s Photovision service on my last submission.&nbsp; Thanks to that, I have some nice hi-res, prong-free <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/02-antpius-photovision-png.1362959/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/02-antpius-photovision-png.1362959/">photos</a> of those coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve wavered back and forth on the ancients-in-slabs issues, and see pros and cons both ways.&nbsp; You might say I&#039;m really on the fence about that.&nbsp; As I&#039;ve mentioned before, if I only collected ancients, exclusively, I would probably not go the slab route.&nbsp; But since the rest of my eclectic collection is all slabbed, off they go to NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been some benefits in that, as well as headaches.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d be glad to hear there&#039;s a hot seller&#039;s market right now, except I don&#039;t have any I&#039;m especially eager to sell right now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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