Straight Slab Collector Guys, Need Not Apply..............

OAKSTAR

............Now that I have your attention. 😂 🤣

All others, post coins you have broken out to fill or complete your albums.

You straight slab collectors can sit back and watch. Get your anxiety pills ready. 🤣 😉

I'll start.

bsshog40

I don't have a pic of the slab, but cracked this out for my dansco.

ricko

It has been many years since I cracked a slab open.... Back then (when I lived in Seattle) it was an odd TPG (had not heard of it before, do not remember name now - about seventeen years ago)... I cracked it to send to PCGS, got it slabbed and it is in my coin cabinet now. Cheers, RickO

jesbroken

I have done so many for my first 7070 and are getting ready to set free a half dozen half cents for the album(ANACS and ICG) and I sent all the previous labels in to NGC. @OAKSTAR look what a wonderful thing you did for your 1917 T2 SLQ. It is now such a beauty. Thanks to Jack Young @burfle23 and others over the last few years, I am not so afraid of buying raw half or large cents.
Jim

FrankH

I get ....tempted.... to crack a multi holder to put back in Capital proof set plastic.
That's where it was and how I best remember it.
But...... sheeshhh..... decisions, decisions

burfle23

Well, I had a friend who had a counterfeit slabbed by a major TPG as genuine; I proved it to him AFTER he broke it out of the slab; hard to convince the TPG their guarantee should still apply...

So go ahead, have at it !

may

@burfle23 said:
Well, I had a friend who had a counterfeit slabbed by a major TPG as genuine; I proved it to him AFTER he broke it out of the slab; hard to convince the TPG their guarantee should still apply...

So go ahead, have at it !

Wow, do you have pictures of the coin?

burfle23

Somewhere! It looks like the ones in one of my early Coin Week articles: https://coinweek.com/brink-ii-update-struck-counterfeits-damaged-source-coins-1807-early-dime-friends/

My friend sent me images of his after the article was published...

WaterSport

Most of these...

OAKSTAR

@bsshog40 said:
I don't have a pic of the slab, but cracked this out for my dansco.

Do you plan on taking pictures of the slabs before you set coins free in the future?

Manifest_Destiny

I had a complete seated quarter set in a Dansco. I'm in the process of certifying the set to make them easier to sell when my kids inherit them.

bsshog40

@OAKSTAR said:

@bsshog40 said:
I don't have a pic of the slab, but cracked this out for my dansco.

Do you plan on taking pictures of the slabs before you set coins free in the future?

I really don't have any intentions of cracking anymore. I actually haven't done much with my albums in a couple years now.

coastaljerseyguy

I had both raw and slabbed Morgans in almost complete sets. Had the complete set ex of the 95P when combining the sets. My goal was to have the best in slabs with a lower grade in my Dansco. To finance my son's college, I had to sell about 60 of the best slabs. Almost everything in a PCGS slab was bot by the B&M shop. Since I still had about 20 slabs left, I decided to just complete my Dansco. Broke these out last year and have no regrets. Between the complete Morgans, Peace and WLH sets I have, must have roke out close to 100 slabs.

OAKSTAR

@coastaljerseyguy- You're my kind of guy. I hope you recycled all that plastic! 😂 🤣

habaraca

Out of my 2 volume Dansco Bust Half books
Maybe a few more but these are all I kept for some reason......

2windy2fish

Canada 5 cent silver collection, nearly complete, lacking a single coin…
An interesting series as most of the coins can be had in the US at very reasonable price, even graded examples….of course the key 1921 is still a 6k coin mid grade

lkenefic

I cracked a few for my 7070... except the last one.

OAKSTAR

Thanks to each of you for the reality check. I thought I was the only one. When I've gone to coin clubs over the years and told some folks what I've done, they all look at me like I have 3 heads!! 😂 🤣 👍🏻

Mr_Spud

I never cracked out a coin to put into an album, I prefer virtual crack outs. This way I still have the coins in their slabs and I get to view them in an album and as a bonus I get to see the obverse and reverse at the same time which you normally can’t do with slabs or albums 🌝

OAKSTAR

That's cheating @Mr_Spud!! 👍🏻

coastaljerseyguy

Would have never guessed they were virtual. Nice work.

dbldie55

In my collection, pretty much every key date in a Dansco was cracked out.

124Spider

The only coin I have ever cracked out is the most expensive coin I have ever bought, a gorgeous Athens Owl. My deal with my wife was that I could buy a very nice example, and we would turn it into a necklace for her, with strict instructions to the (very fine) jeweler to put it in a bezel in a way that would not damage the ancient beauty.

OAKSTAR

I would say that qualifies @124Spider. 👍🏻 👍🏻

124Spider

@OAKSTAR said:
I would say that qualifies @124Spider. 👍🏻 👍🏻

When I was a kid (and a coin collector, with my Whitman folders), my family visited NYC. At one of the museums, I became enamored over a modern replica of that coin, and bought it (never dreaming, of course, that I ever would own a real one). Fast forward many decades, and I realized that I could. And did. So it completed my collection (of 1) of ancient Athenian coins!

OAKSTAR

@124Spider said:

@OAKSTAR said:
I would say that qualifies @124Spider. 👍🏻 👍🏻

When I was a kid (and a coin collector, with my Whitman folders), my family visited NYC. At one of the museums, I became enamored over a modern replica of that coin, and bought it (never dreaming, of course, that I ever would own a real one). Fast forward many decades, and I realized that I could. And did. So it completed my collection (of 1) of ancient Athenian coins!

Outstanding story! I think you're singing the same exact song most of us sung as kids. However, rather then a museum and the Athens Owl, for me it was the Redbook and a 09-S-VDB or the 55DDO. Your words put us all in the category of enamored coin collectors. 👍🏻 👍🏻

Walkerguy21D

@OAKSTAR said:
Thanks to each of you for the reality check. I thought I was the only one. When I've gone to coin clubs over the years and told some folks what I've done, they all look at me like I have 3 heads!! 😂 🤣 👍🏻

If you think about it, it’s not much different than all the folks who crack out coins for regrades, cross overs, etc, except they get some time to tone up in the albums 😉

FrankH

@Mr_Spud said:
I never cracked out a coin to put into an album, I prefer virtual crack outs. This way I still have the coins in their slabs and I get to view them in an album and as a bonus I get to see the obverse and reverse at the same time which you normally can’t do with slabs or albums 🌝

It's just not the same.
My ...fun... with coins was during Dansco 7070 days. There's just something cool about flipping through PAGES of history instead of clacketty plastic.

Mr_Spud

@FrankH said:

It's just not the same.
My ...fun... with coins was during Dansco 7070 days. There's just something cool about flipping through PAGES of history instead of clacketty plastic.

I agree with you, it’s not the same. I love collecting coins in albums too, but I’ve never cracked a slabbed coin to put the coins in the albums. I just put raw ones in them.

But for slabbed coins, which I keep in safe deposit boxes, I made images of them and experimented with different ways to present the images and ended up making the virtual Wayte Raymond album board template and found I liked it better than any of the other background templates I tried.

Something about those old Wayte Raymond boards just makes the coins pop to me. It’s probably because those are my favorite albums for actual coins too 🌝

FrankH

OAKSTAR

Man, love those albums @Mr_Spud!! 👍🏻

OAKSTAR

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