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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1623181, member: 19463&quot;]...and that is exactly what the OP wants to buy.&nbsp; He does not want any of the thousands upon thousands of varieties of unusual ancients but he wants something available in bulk to dealers that can be likened to others of its kind at a set price.&nbsp; It works for modern coins because there are so few variations.&nbsp; It is more difficult with so many ancients.&nbsp; Common Byzantine gold and high grade denarii of Severus Alexander might just have a place in slabs.&nbsp; Coins that do not come in just a few grades will be harder to force into five grades with five levels of strike and five levels of surface.&nbsp; Can we equate 100 different Augustus/Agrippa crocodile dupondii each deserving VF 3/3?&nbsp; That is one example that comes to mind.&nbsp; When it is time to sell, you will still need a dealer to evaluate the individual coin for 95% of all ancients.&nbsp;&nbsp; For the 5% that fit the slabbing concept, perhaps there will be good results.&nbsp; There will never be a Red Book for ancients and never a condition census list assigning a sale price for each of the million ancient options.&nbsp; As long as you need a dealer with a clue to market the coins, the slabs will be just so much plastic.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do agree that the cases are cute although a box of 3000 of them will be hard to carry.&nbsp; What makes them objectionable is not being able to open them to examine, photograph, handle, weigh and enjoy the item trapped inside.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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