Question about cracking slabs

Tootawl

Does anyone else get nervous about cracking some slabs? I finally got the nerve to crack open the 1892 Barber half that I bought in Baltimore last weekend. Here's the original story about it. I don't think I ever took so much time cracking a slab as I did this one.

mozeppa

nope.... but i have a band saw.

RickMilauskas

Put the labeled end in a vise and slowly crush it or...

use a band saw and cut through the labeled end.

Add two chicken bullion cubes and some sorghum and pry apart the halves. (serves 3 - 4 hungry numismatists)

Trinketts

I have gotten to where I am prettu confident cracking open any slab.. NGC and the new ANACS have to be the easiest though...

Tootawl

Don't get me wrong. I know how to do it. I just got real nervous about scratching the coin I spent over 2 amd half years looking for.

seateddime

got a 30 lbs vise and lighty hit the side with a hammer on all 4 sides. You can tell when the seal cracks. PCGS slabs are a bit more of a pain.

Bryan1315

the first slab i cracked upen eneded up putting a scratch on a DPL morgan and I haven't gotten the nerve to do it again yet, but I have two here in a NGC slab that i am getting ready to bust out and resubmit. I think I am going to take a cutting wheel on my dremel and just cut around the seam and try it that way

Tootawl

I'd be hating life if I scratched my Barber half. Who knows when I will find another like it.

RickMilauskas

If you scratched that half I'd laugh...


but I'd feel bad for you.

Tootawl

<< <i>If you scratched that half I'd laugh...


but I'd feel bad for you. >>


My pal!!