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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8108550, member: 120820&quot;]I&#039;m not a fan of slabs, or grading for ancient coins either for that matter !</p><p><br /></p><p>Reasons:</p><p><br /></p><p>- I do like to take coins out, hold them, inspect them, compare them, make group photos, etc</p><p>- I don&#039;t buy coins based on grades. I buy them based on things like rarity, style, eye appeal</p><p>- I&#039;m often not buying commodity coins where I could pick and choose between grades, even I was inclined to value someone else&#039;s opinion over my own. If a coin only appears once every 5/10/20 years, you either buy it or not.</p><p>- I have almost 1300 coins. 2x2 envelopes is bad enough, slabs would just be impractical</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the time when grading for ancients was useful has long passed. It was useful pre-internet when people were buying sight unseen from mail order lists. Nowadays a hi-resolution photo, or video, tells you infinitely more than a couple of numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think my heirs will fare best I if sell my collection before I kick the bucket.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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