What do you do with "slabbed hole" in album?
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If you have an album, and you have it filled except for a key date, and you have the key in a slab...
Do you photocopy the slab and tape it into the album?
Seems a shame to leave a hole...
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Many people crack the coin out and put it in the album with the labeled insert. I wouldn't do that, but to each their own. You could buy another to fill the hole also. Unless it isn't cost effective.
EDIT- One reason I wouldn't crack it for the album is if you go to get it graded again it might get a lower grade because cracking it and placing it in the album could possibly damage the coin a little.
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Depends on how valuable the coin is, especially in or out of the slab. I've cracked maybe 10 coins that are in my type album. I have a piece of paper in the back where I tape all the labels. Most of the coins were circulated or not particularly valuable, so I don't think the slab added much. I suppose the gold Indian is easier to sell in a slab, but I know it's genuine, it's not high grade, and I doubt I'll ever upgrade it, so it now being raw is of very little concern to me.
hmm... my peace dollar album has just 1 hole, for the 1928. I have that in ANACS AU58... for me, that is 'particularly valuable', and I'm afraid to crack it out! I'll have to think about that one...
Thanks,
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How about take a picture of the coin, crop it to size, paste the obverse and reverse images on a piece of cardboard to fit in the album hole.
I wouldn't crack the 28 Peace
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A piece of cardboard? How about paste them on an Ike dollar?
I stick a duplicate in the hole. Actually right now I’m only working on one Dansco album, it’s for silver Washington quarters. The 32-S and 32-D are slabbed, so I just plugged in a duplicate for each hole. Keep it classy.
A duplicate, as in an actual key-date coin? Dupe 16d dime might be classy, but not cheap!
@moursund no, not keys, common dates.
Well in this case an Ike dollar would be too big in diameter for a walking liberty half dollar hole.
Yeah yeah... My attention had shifted to the 1928 peace dollar. Scan or printed picture of coin obverse, pasted to common-date equivalent, is a great idea. Reverse should look the same anyway...
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I’m perfectly happy leaving a hole in my raw albums. But I have given thought to buying a hobby replica and using that to fill it in.
If the slab adds a lot of value i.e. a high-grade, expensive coin, then cracking it would be foolish.
Using the 1938-D, in your photo, as an example:
VG-AU--I'd crack.
MS 63 and higher--I'd not crack.
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That could work too.
You could do something a simple as a post-it note with the date, grade and slab brand.
For example:
1938-D
AU-50
PCGS
Oh, that reminds me, are post-it notes known to be "safe and clean" near coins?
What about tissues stuffed in the end of partly full coin tubes..,?
am
Many generic Post-Its are made with acidic paper and non-safe glue.
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/post-it-or-not-post-it
Perhaps better would be to use a small square of archival quality paper for the label (and put it in the hole in the album).
Mainly I was thinking of a Post-It so that the paper would not rotate within the hole.
If by safe you mean won't affect the coin probably not. Paper and tissue usually contain sulfer or other chemicals that will tone the coins or tarnish as @ricko would say.
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You can buy a decent 38-D for $35. Seems like a no brainer place holder.
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I crack it out and put it in the album. Did it with all of the key dates that are in my albums (and the ones I ended up selling years ago.) Bought my 1893-S Morgan from my local dealer in a PCGS holder and had him crack it out for me before I left the store.
Ok, kinda what a figured. And maybe I need to go find and replace the odd bits of tissues and paper towels I may have in my coin tubes... I just found a CU thread that suggests cotton balls are better/safer.
But I also found this... Funny, but not exactly what I thought it was...
All day long, as long as it's circulated.
There are a few series I have missing coins where hole filler could be $30 bucks or so... including 1920 and 20d mercs. Maybe I'll start chipping away buying some ag/g beauties...
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bad form to quote myself, but I just noticed this on the "Coin Tissues" product... The CC Mint mark...
I fill it with a widget "tails side up"
That lets me know I have the coin & it is elsewhere.
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I don’t use albums, but I do use flips for my British and Imperial Roman collections. When I have a place in the collection filled by a certified coin, I print photos of both sides of the coin, put those in a flip with the usual label and put that surrogate in place of the coin.
Since I'm the only one who sees my albums, or even cares about them, a hole for a slabbed coin does not bug me. OC types might feel much differently, I realize.
I never thought of slabbing a hole. Does that go economy or express?
The problem is they always come back ms70.
Several websites list 1938 S Walker Copies for sale under $20. Even though it is not a 38D it might suffice and they are comparable in look to your other coins showing in your album. One even has make offer.
Good luck.
JIm
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One can have a circulated or low to mid range unc set of various series in the album of your choice collection and that would include a type set and then you can have a slab set for a higher grade set. This can be doe with Morgans, Peace Dollars and WLHs.
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The the turtlecat i take no issues with a hole in my album.....case in point my Mercury dimes no 16 D wont be one unless I hit the lottery, as most 16 D's are in AG or G, my dimes not unc. But a nice even grade and color collection. Thus a 16 d that looked like it was rode hard and put away wet has no place in my collection. I rather do without then settle for something else to fill a hole.
My IHC & FEC the 1856 isn't in my budget so I found a nice love token on a IHC to fill the hole.
And remember it's your collection......you set the rules....so it really don't matter as you are your biggest critic....when you need to satisfy ones own taste.
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I've had Dansco albums which you can add a plastic sleeve. I think the sleeves are meant to be baseball card sized (fits 4), but a slab fits quite nicely. That way you can keep slabs and raw coins together. Just make sure the album spine width is large enough to accommodate since slabs are thicker than a coin page.
I put something like a classic commemorative in the hole. That serves as code that the example is slabbed. If you have an interested audience, then show them the slab.
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Ok here is what I would do.
1) Take a picture of both sides of the coin in your holder. PCGS I hope.
2) After entering the pics into your inventory, Start an "album" that lists the coin.
3) Insert the pictures into the album.
4) After saving the album, click on it and you will get a True view representation.
5) Copy and save the image into a file. You might need to use the web capture feature here. If it is a true view,
just click on it.
6) Cut a circle out of cardboard to the size of the actual folder / coin diameter.
7) Size your picture to fit the cardboard diameter and save it.
8) Print the image out in color.
9) Glue image onto cardboard.
10) Trim picture as needed and place into your folder.
Best of luck.
Wayne
Edited to add web capture feature.
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my morgan dollar dansco has a hole for 95P! it bothered me too so I got a horrible looking fake just to fill the hole
I'm keeping a spreadsheet inventory of my collection, but I hadn't considered taking pictures of all the coins and putting them into the spreadsheet. I'll think about that
I've done that with all my coins for 10 or so years with Excel.
Jim
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I de-slab the coin and put it in the album.
I put a nice shiny coin, usually a cheap proof, any date will do, in the hole and keep the good one in the slab. I do it because I suffer from OCD. No brainer......HELP! 😱
I actually have taken photos of a few of the coins, printed them to size and placed the photos into my albums. I also cut out a small photo of the slab label with the grade and have attached it above the coin photo. The color is a bit off and I’ve been intending on redoing them,but, for the time being- it works.
There are a handful that I’ve cracked over the years to go into the album, but no more. I’m keeping them slabbed from now on, unless they were common lower grade/inexpensive coins. But then, I’m pretty much down to the heavy key dates at this point.
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If it's under about $500 and below MS63 or so I will crack it out and tape the label inside the cover.
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