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Message:: [QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8232582, member: 110504"]Well, Yeah, but, relative to a COA, or another slabbing firm, I have to wonder whether all of what you said about NGC, relatively nuanced as it is, is really about anything beyond what you get from an unslabbed coin from a dealer who reliably knows what he's looking at.  As in, whose experts, and what level of expertise, are actually involved?  Since we're already talking about "expert opinion," details like that assume an especially pertinent level of significance.In this context, I especially like what [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] has said recently, regarding provenance.  To her point, in a best case, this can substantively help to confirm something as basic as mere authenticity.  If I'm looking at someone's "expert opinion," I'm going to want to know something about who that expert is.  In the absence of that, the main thing a slab is going to tell me is that the dealer wanted to impose an otherwise irrelevant markup on the coin.BTW, your Vespasian denarius is a Magnificent convergence of toning and detail.  If it was mine, I'd crack it in a New York heartbeat.[/QUOTE]