Crack a coin out of a slab and put in an album?
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A 1967 SMS Kennedy PCGS-MS65 CAM to go into my Dansco Kennedy Album. Had it slabbed myself then cracked it.
Most of my coins are kept in Dansco Albums, not slabs. Slabs are weird, albums are not. I'm use to albums, have been since I was 10. If I was collecting registry sets then I would get interested in slabs quickly. But I don't want the best - I just want a decent one to go in a Dansco Album.
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Some food for thought though........ some of th ecoins i've cracked i now want to sell, and it would be easier to do if they were still in slabs.
If you dont think you'll wanna sell them in the near future, crack away. It's still the same coin it was when it still had the plastic container wrapped around it.......only now it looks better in an album.
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<< <i>There is NO need to crack a slabbed coin in order to put a nice coin in an album. Have any of you heard of the EAGLE brand of certified coin holders? Each page holds 9 PCGS or NGC slabs very nicely. They use 3 ring binders which can either be bought with the holders or you can use regular notebook binders and print your own cover pages. If you buy a 3" binder with elongated rings you can fit up to 7 pages or 63 slabs in one binder. It may not look as esthetically nice as Dansco but it is still nice if your slabs are all from one grading service like PCGS. JMHO. Steve
Yes, but if your collection is all unslabbed coins and you have to pick up a slabbed coin in order to complete it, the cost of having all of your raw coins slabbed just so they would fit into the slab-album would be prohibitively expensive. (Unless your coins are in utter pristine condition and the potential financial gains are worth the initial cost).
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I did it twice when I was collecting US type coins in a Dansco 7070, back around 1998. The first one I cracked out was a nice PCGS MS63 Walker half. The second was a PCGS MS63 San Diego half that had slightly dirty toning I wasn't crazy about, so I cracked it out AND dipped it, and put it in my album. Later I decided to graduate from the Dansco 7070 to a full 1798-date (nongold) type set in slabs, so I resubmitted several of my Dansco coins (mostly to the old PCI, since I wasn't a PCGS snob yet at the time). PCI gave the ex-PCGS 63, ex-Dansco Walker an MS63 green label (I never resubmitted the San Diego). I would've been better off keeping the Walker in its original PCGS plastic, but hey, hindsight is 20/20.
I don't see anything wrong with cracking coins outta slabs to put them in albums, but in my post-Dansco days I decided to use an Eagle slab album, so I could have the coins housed in an album AND still keep 'em slabbed. I fondly remember my old Dansco days and would still use bookshelf albums for many things, but I do not think I would use one for proof coins or red copper.
As gorgeous and handsomely-displayed as his famous raw Dansco type set is, I think Baley is a brave man keeping his proof Seated coins and other lovelies in a Dansco- I would be scared to death of hairlines, slide marks, and even the very air around here. (I live on the seacoast in an area with a lot of paper mills, so there's no shortage of sulfur in the air and groundwater, from both natural and industrial sources. This was one reason I switched to slabs in late '98, for the extra protection they provided, albeit not total protection.)
Thanks to all respondents! Seems that the overall concensus is that it's no biggie to crack one out to put it into an album. Hmmmmmm.... I asked this question because I'm still unsure about where I want to go with my collection. I'm considering getting some albums and beginning to plug some holes, but I'm not sure if I've got the guts!
I love the idea about having a full album that represents a set of whatever set I'm trying to put together. That must be a great feeling to have everything right there in front of you! I'm concerned, though, about damaging a coin by keeping it in an album instead of a slab. That's my only hesitation. But, like many of you said, the only reason to keep a coin in a slab would be for resale. Not that I plan on reselling anything anytime soon. It is nice to know, however, that the value of a coin is more defined in slab (not that it's carved in stone either).
What to do? What to do?
I'd have to agree with you, LordM. I'm waaaaaaaaaaaay to chicken s%*t to do that!! I feel much safer with stuff in a slab where I can't mess it up!