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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7982776, member: 91461&quot;]Those of us that have followed heritage for a while have seen the crazy amounts people will pay for an extra piece of plastic. But it really seems to be getting out of hand (pun alert!).</p><p>I believe a lot of the animosity (if that&#039;s the right word) ancient collectors have towards slabs is that they are often used to get &quot;suckers&quot; who buy ancients as an investment and not for love or passion of history to pay through the nose.</p><p>However, once you get into certain price brackets slabs do have their advantages.</p><p>On the other end of the spectrum &quot;suckers&quot; slab coins that have zero reason to be in a slab to try and get more for them then the coin would be worth otherwise and it backfires.</p><p>Case (pun intended) in point. At a recent Stacks auction I purchased one of my favorite Sicilian bronzes for $60.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385283[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1385282[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody really lost money paying $50 to slab this and, whatever they paid for the raw coin, get a max of ten bucks for their troubles.</p><p>Don&#039;t worry Hieron II is safe now.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385285[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1385286[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That poster identifies as, &quot;She, Her&quot; now. Despite showing again and again that she likes to troll our community, asking questions she had the answer to, playing dumb and outright lying. If that is what she wants she has the right to be called &quot;las&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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