To slab or not to slab???

bigbadchad777

I currently own a complete set of modern commemorative proof coins. Both silver and gold. They are all in the original US Mint boxes. I feel like they will loose value if they are removed from the boxes but I would like them slabbed. For instance my 1995-96 16 coin Olympic set is in a beautiful solid cherry US Mint presentation case and my Jackie Robinson comes in a wooden box with a baseball card and pin. By slabbing these coins these beautiful boxes will go to waste. What to do???

psxchelly

as many other more experienced people on this message board say

"they are worth slabbing them if you intend to sell them"

Good possibility they would increase in value if you did. I am sure others will respond to you.

Steve27

Slab them but save all the supporting material (including the plastic cases which house the coins). You will end up with nice registry set, and still have the opportunity to crack them out and restore the originality of the set (if you need to in the future).

littlewicher

What you can do is have them slabbed, then as soon as you get them crack them out and put them back in the cases. Then you still have the number. But if you either plan on selling it in the near future or don't want to pay more slabbing costs then don't do that.
Hope that helps, Brian.

CarlWohlforth

Some coins are not worth more slabbed. Such as the Buffalo dollars. My wife collects US Mint products in original packaging. I would really want to display the commems in the nice wooden presentation boxes.

If you slab absolutely keep all original packaging.

kyleknap

My opinion, no.

They in the original packaging, why put them in a slab? They'll look much better the way they are.