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Ever crack out a PCGS holder with your bare hands?

bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
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I have tried several times on various occasions to "open" a PCGS slab with my bare hands, always with no success whatsoever. Last night though, just for snicks, I twisted a clad dime slab and VIOLA! it cracked in three places! I guess that ginseng I am taking is good stuff.
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  • poorguypoorguy Posts: 4,317 ✭
    I've thought about it but never put that much effort into it. image Was it a new PCGS slab? OGH? Sampleimage?
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  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭


    Wow, I'd be careful about doing that. I'd think those sharp plastic shards would do a serious number on your hands. OUCH!
  • coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151


    << <i>Wow, I'd be careful about doing that. I'd think those sharp plastic shards would do a serious number on your hands. OUCH! >>



    I did it with my Franklin Mint products, I wanted to get the steel cent out of one of there weird plastic coins of the century crap thing, and yeah... My hand stained my moms floor, she was pretty pissed.
    Scott Hopkins
    -YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.

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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow, I'd be careful about doing that. I'd think those sharp plastic shards would do a serious number on your hands. OUCH! >>

    Your hands will heal. The scratches on your coins, on the other hand, won't.
  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭
    Greg,

    Hmmm .... I think I will require you to post a damage deposit before handling any slabs at my tableimage
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  • bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
    It was a new make holder, only a couple months old.
    "Wars are really ugly! They're dirty
    and they're cold.
    I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
    Mary






    Best Franklin Website
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    neanderthal!

    K S
  • ccrccr Posts: 2,446
    image

    Hiiii - Yaaaw! image
  • GoYankeesGoYankees Posts: 1,025
    You got to use your teeth and treat that slab like it was a bottle of beer. image

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    this thread is very manly. does blood tone silver nicely?
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  • coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151


    << <i>this thread is very manly. does blood tone silver nicely? >>



    It adds a real weird color, like a brownish.
    Scott Hopkins
    -YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.

    My Ebay!
  • OwlOwl Posts: 21

    I've tried but couldn't do it. I have opend ANACS holders however.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    RUN! IT'S BUSHMASTER!


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  • bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
    That's not me! I look similar, but my knuckles are far more hairy!
    "Wars are really ugly! They're dirty
    and they're cold.
    I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
    Mary






    Best Franklin Website
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    "Ever crack out a PCGS holder with your bare hands?"

    No, but I might have to try it now.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    I always do it with one bare hand. Of course it's holding bolt-cutters. image
    Developing theory is what we are meant to do as academic researchers
    and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
  • coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151
    Sadly in a couple years I will have the full hair coat, just like the pic.
    Scott Hopkins
    -YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.

    My Ebay!
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That's not me! I look similar, but my knuckles are far more hairy! >>



    image


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