To cut open Mint sets or not to cut open Mint sets. What say YOU?

MajorDuty

Lets say one was to build a set of modern coins in albums, and had a run of mint sets from the 60s to date, would you suggest cutting open all those mint sets or reccommend keeping the mint sets as they are, with OGP, and not butcher them and build the sets another way?

One could get a long way filling their albums with coins from those mint sets, but then again all those sets with their coins in the cellos would be gone forever. You've still got the coins, of course, but the "sets" are gone.

There may be many here who have cut up their sets and I'm sure there are many who keep their sets intact. What are your suggestions and why?

ILikeMercs

It's a matter of storage preference. In an album you can look at them........I have mine intact (in OGP) and all I see are a bunch of envelopes.

mach19

There is something about saying you have the set. I can see the point about the album also. This is one's choice. I like mine in the set

cladking

Cut 'em. It's the best way to display your coins.

You can always get a collections of choice sets too if you want them intact. Cut the ugly
sets with one or two nice coins. Don't buy the junk sets with no nice ones.

clackamas

Cut'em, I went through 1800 of the 68's.

19Lyds

It really depends on the quality of the coins in the mint sets. Some were simply not all that good while others had some nice coins. It would have been very rare to get all nice coins in one set.

I'd suggest just leaving them and starting your own dansco sets on the coins you want to collect.

PrivateCoinCollector

Always buy 2, one to cut and one to keep.

Boom

<< <i>Always buy 2, one to cut and one to keep. >>



Exactly!

TwoSides2aCoin

If you are putting an album together, I'd cut them open. If you are looking for GEMS and find one, it would come out of cellophane and go into a hard plastic at PCGS. Sets are nice, but if you find a SPECIAL coin in the mix, it's like the old saying: THE CREAM RISES TO THE TOP. I would have to segregate that one


Joe

P.S. TGIF

TheRaven

My preference is for OGP, but if you want a nice album of Jefferson's or something of the like, nothing wrong with that.....

Keep cutting up them mint sets and just maybe those sets will be worth something.....

a039

If you want to compromise Dansco makes albums for intact mint sets.

robertpr

Slice 'em up. You're not going to be depleting the reserve of modern mint sets, they're ubercommon. And you'll generally get nicer coins out of mint sets than out of rolls or from another source.

MajorDuty

So far it is pretty much split down the middle.

Heywood

I had the same question a while back-

I decided to cut open my mint sets and proof sets ( Back to 64) and place them in Danscos.

I didn't have any regrets ( And don't yet)

I sold my 99 and 01 silver proofs, and If I bought them back, I don't think I would break them out.