Would you crack out a PCGS to add to your raw collection?

Hedger

I am currently looking at a nice MS64 walker in PCGS but with a value of approx. $100.00 in this grade. If I were to crack this coin out what would be your recommendations. I realize the coin would be better off in the slab but how many of you crack 'em out?

Longacre

Why would you want to crack it out? Maybe if we understood what your intentions are with it, we can offer suggestions. Do you not like coins is slabs, or do you think it can be presented better in your overall collection if it is not in a slab?

goose3

bust it out.

i've done numerous slabs for my son's Dansco Type book

Hedger

I wouln't do it if the value was much higher but yes, this coin would be added to my dansco colection.

RBinTex

Of Course

marmac

all the time!

ss350camaro

Yes, For my Dansco type set album

Steve27

Yes, I've done it for my raw type set.

LanLord

I cracked a 1901-S quarter to add to my Dansco Barber album. Plastic is not sacred.

hyperizer

I crack 'em also.

1956Half

Definitely. If its not a key date, I'd do it, and in fact have done it to complete my high grade Washington quarters set.

JrGMan2004

Depends on the coin... but yes... I have...

Veep

I cracked a few to put them in my Capitol holder for US. Gold Type coins.

mr1931S

"I realize the coin would be better off in the slab but how many of you crack 'em out?"

The coin's being better off in a slab is arguable. Nothing wrong with removing any coin from any kind of holder, in my opinion. The collector should always take care to not diminish the integrity of the coin in any way when changing housings. Just be careful while doing this, in other words.

A coin flying across the room frisbee style because improper slab crack out procedure was employed is not a good thing.

dthigpen

I've cracked out many coins to stick into Danscos.

seanq

I just cracked one for my clipped cent set last week. You know how they say a new car depreciates the moment you drive it off the lot? I'd venture I threw about 75% of my purchase price into the garbage in the form of shards of plastic. That said, value is really not important to me in this case. The coin isn't going anywhere for a long time, and it looks so cozy now in the Gardmaster album next to its neighbors.


Sean Reynolds

ccrdragon

I've cracked many IHC/Buffalos out to put into my Intercept shield sets. Doesn't bother me at all because I have no intention of selling the coins for many many years and I think they look better in the intercepts than in the slabs.

OKbustchaser

Why would I want to leave it in a slab?
(Of course, I refuse to pay any more for a coin in a slab than I would be willing to pay if it were raw.)

Jim

gemtone65

Perhaps you could benefit from selling the slabbed coin and replacing it with a raw one.

vega1

I seem to be in the minority

No, I would never crack it out. But thats just me, I like 'em in plastic... mainly so I don't have the chance to lose/damage/fingerprint it.

DrWho

hate for my coins to be entombed in plastic. they're meant to be held (3rd side), felt and examined (by the rims of course). and i do mean............entombed.

paigowjohnny

<< <i>I've cracked out many coins to stick into Danscos. >>



Me too !! Crack that pig !!

relayer

Only to put the coin in an album

pharmer

This forum is getting me thinking about using albums again, and I would not hesitate to crack a pcgs or any other slab if I was doing an album. The reason I am hesitating is I don't want to pop a coin to see the reverse, or the obverse if I'm showing the reverse out. Are there any nice albums that show the other side just by turning the page, like with plastic over both sides, or just open on both sides? That I would like. Is it a new idea? Can I patent it? How many would you like? Am I rich yet?

dbldie55

Most expensive coin I ever bought was out of the holder before I left the coin shop.

It looked like this before it went into the Dansco.

ksteelheader

Over half the coins in my type set were once in slabs!

BAJJERFAN

Since I no longer collect raw coins the answer is real easy; NOPE.

Crackout

My answer is...........CRACK IT OUT!

nwcs

Myself, I don't crack a coin out of the holder unless I intend to cross it.

haletj

I'm very much considering cracking out my GEM RED early Lincolns. (I have 1930-d to 2004 raw in plastic holders, want 1909-1930 that way too)

Baley

I do it all the time.

This coin, for example, used to be in a PCGS slab

clackamas

Why not if your are confident that you could get it regraded at the same level. Who knows maybe it will tone very nicely and you will have an MS65?

JRocco

Yes, and yes I have many many times.

ClausUrch

Former PCGS MS63

Murphy

I busted a 1893 Columbian Expo 50¢ commem last week from its slab and put it in my Dansco Type set. It looks a lot better in there than it did in that blue plastic box that it was in.

I'm trying to decide when I should bust open this 1981-S Proof set with 4 type-2 S coins in it that I need to upgrade my collection. It's not a matter of whether I should or not, but when will I feel comfortable enough to put the plastic and the pliars together to satisfy a gnawing, burning desire to trade a few fair coins for some really beautiful ones.

lordmarcovan

I cracked out an MS64 Walker to put in a Dansco, once. But it was an old PCI green, not a PCGS. I did crack out a PCGS MS63 San Diego half for the same Dansco type set. (AND... *gasp*... I dipped it, too!)

TommyB

I've done several for my type album. I tape the paper from inside the slab to the back of the album so whoever winds up with my album when I kick will have the grade.

Murphy

"I cracked out an MS64 Walker to put in a Dansco...(AND... *gasp*... I dipped it, too!)" ...ROFL!

I print out small tags to glue under the coins that I bust out and add to my Dansco Albums so I'll know the grade and grading company. It's important to know that it's a graded coin and any lost value suffered by busting it out of its slab is gained back in the form of satisfaction of having it on display where I want it.

greghansen

Ask Bajjerfan. I bought an '89-CC PCGS VF20 Morgan from him that he had just got slabbed. I quickly freed it from its plastic coffin and slapped it into my Morgan VF album which is in progress. He also sold me my '93-S PCGS VF25 which I have threatened to set free...but haven't had the nerve to do so yet.

BAJJERFAN

That Greg; he is a crackout artist fer sure. A man's decision isn't as important as his reason(s) for making that decision.


<<"Why not if your are confident that you could get it regraded at the same level">>

If you bought the coin and not the slab then this should be of no concern; if it IS a concern then DON'T crack it. There IS NO GUARANTEE that the same TPG will regrade it at the SAME grade in the future.

MadMonk

I love coins in an album versus a slab, and I am often temted to crack them out, and put them in a nice, neat, compact Dansco. I've actually started some Dansco sets for my 17 month old son. Nothing real expensive, but enough to have good eye appeal, and hopefully spark an interest when he gets old enough to understand.

Baley

another former "pcgs" coin

Hedger

Guess I'll get "crackin'" then.

carl

If it's to add to a collection in a book with plastic covers front and back, break it out but keep the tag tapped in the book somewhere. I break out many to complete a Lincoln set in a Whitman folder. I tape the tag on the inside cover.