Should I Break Out The Roman Silver ?

Cool! Thanks for the explanation guys! (Shame someone would do that to a coin though!)

And no, I didn't think you'd buy a copy, unless it was a contemporary one with historic significance! It was just the coin looked odd to me and I was interested as to why!

T

I say leave it in the slab. A coin that old deserves to be in a nice display.

If you want to sell it, leave it in the slab. If you want to enjoy it, break it out. I'd say the surface is better than a "1" and it is impossible to appreciate a coin for what it is when it is in a slab. Everyone sees the grade and numbers first. They see the plastic before the see the coin. If you think having a rare denomination is cool and owning a late silver piece of am important Roman emperor is special, break it out so you can see the coin. The slab is camoflage that hides the real thing.