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Message:: [QUOTE="Joshua Lemons, post: 8109585, member: 82388"]As a newbie to ancients, I don't own any slabbed ancients.  Mine are all housed in Saflips.  But, as a world/U.S. coin collector I own around 30 slabbed coins. That being said, I like the protection a slab gives plus a little piece of mind as to grade, etc.  With ancients though, I have found I like them raw.  I display them in an album and can rearrange them in the page easily and 2x2 pages allow for a page of 20 coins. With U.S. coins I see low priced coins slabbed, I'm assuming as part of bulk submissions, but I think this is unheard of with ancients? I won't say I'll never own a slabbed ancient, but the fact is, those slabbed ancients are above my price range.  If the time comes to own a particularly expensive ancient, I would be inclined to buy it slabbed as I do with expensive/rare U.S. or world coins.   My family knows nothing about coins with the exception of looking for "W" quarters and the fact I've told them 1964 and before dimes and up are silver.  They know less than this about ancients. To this end, should I unexpectedly perish with no estate planning, I've told them who to take my collection to to sell.  I think with the current value of my collection, they'd fare just about equally if the collection was slabbed or not.[/QUOTE]