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Why Aren't More Ancients Slabbed?

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 Posted 12/24/2013  4:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DVCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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These ancient coins have survived for over two thousand years without the assistance of a TPG to protect them. We're not entirely convinced they need the help. Besides, are slabs really that good, long term? I mean really, really long term? We simply don't know; slabs haven't been around long enough. Will the coin collectors a millennium from now be cursing our bones for putting their coins in those stupid slab things?
Obviously, a coin is more durable than its little plastic tomb--so how is that remotely "archival"? I imagine a day when people are digging up ancients, fused inside globs of plastic that were once TPG holders.
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 Posted 12/24/2013  5:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The irony is plastic is not as eternal as most people think ! Supposing a two thousand year old coin last another thousand and more. The plastic will have long since degraded and turned to dust. Even glass will begin to frost up and loose its transparency. 24K coin slabs ? Slap a hologram on the outside and you are good to go ! Then again who is to say you aren't looking at a hologram already when you see as 'slabbed' coin.
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