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Keep Details Slabs Or Set Them Free?

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 Posted 04/02/2019  10:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cipster to your friends list
You'll find different opinions about breaking out of slabs or not. I collect old copper and break them out but others would disagree.

One reason for getting details coins slabbed is to verify that they are genuine.
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 Posted 04/02/2019  10:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TimNH to your friends list

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One reason for getting details coins slabbed is to verify that they are genuine.


That is true, but I am guessing that no one would try to counterfeit a coin like my .5D that is worth maybe 10 bucks.

Then again I'd think no one would ever send one in to get slabbed, so what do I know

Yea, w/ these that are very far from top condition, I think I'm gonna set them loose!
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 Posted 04/02/2019  2:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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Imho, if you are working on a 7070 or similar Type Set Album why not free them and give them a new home. If you're working on a modified type set of your own design then do whatever best accommodates your collection.
I agree.
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 Posted 04/02/2019  4:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list
From the pictures you posted the 1857 Half Dime wouldn't make a difference. The 1798 large cent you would be losing a lot of value cracking that out if you decided to try and sell that online or too a dealer without having it regraded
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 Posted 04/02/2019  10:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TimNH to your friends list

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From the pictures you posted the 1857 Half Dime wouldn't make a difference. The 1798 large cent you would be losing a lot of value cracking that out if you decided to try and sell that online or too a dealer without having it regraded


That sounds like good advice - the little 1/2 D is free, and the big 1/2 P stays in jail for his own protection :)

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 Posted 04/03/2019  08:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list

I'm not a fan of slabbed coins so my opinion is to break out all coins.
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 Posted 04/03/2019  1:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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That sounds like good advice - the little 1/2 D is free, and the big 1/2 P stays in jail for his own protection :)
Well done.
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 Posted 04/03/2019  2:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Andrew99 to your friends list
I cannot sell coins in details holders, but when I break them out, even with the problem fully described, they sell.
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I cannot sell coins in details holders, but when I break them out, even with the problem fully described, they sell.


I wouldn't have thought that'd be the case. Does it make the problem seem less real perhaps?
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 Posted 04/03/2019  2:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TimNH to your friends list
Yeah when I shop (all ebay) I tend to avoid slabbed coins - 1) I figure they aren't gonna be bargains, and 2) if they aren't in Details slabs, maybe they "might" be non-details! Of course if you disclose this w/ unslabbed coins, you are a more honest seller than most

I like your footer - I have no use for albums or rules (thus I dislike the 7070, wow what a random bunch of requirements & restrictions), my coins are of the theme "bags of doubloons"!
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I wouldn't have thought that'd be the case. Does it make the problem seem less real perhaps?
The TPG opinion has value, love it or not. A good opinion encourages the market pay more than it would for a raw coin, a bad opinion has the reverse effect.
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 Posted 04/03/2019  3:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list

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Does it make the problem seem less real perhaps?


Short answer yes especially for minor problems. Some people may not believe it with a minor problem and think everyone else is wrong and they're getting a great deal etc.

A lot depends on the problem, questionable color or a light scratch in a non focal point the slab saying it is a downer for a lot of people. A polished or massive scratch slab or not it will have the stigma
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For plugging a hole in an album, I see no problem cracking out a details coin. Better that than putting a high MS grade coin in it then sliding the window across the surface of the coin leaving hairlines.
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For plugging a hole in an album, I see no problem cracking out a details coin. Better that than putting a high MS grade coin in it then sliding the window across the surface of the coin leaving hairlines.
Agreed.
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 Posted 04/03/2019  6:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinsKelly to your friends list
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Then again I'd think no one would ever send one in to get slabbed


Sometimes they send them in trying to get them slabbed as a high value variety but fail and wind up with a details grade.

I prefer to crack out coins except for the non-high value coins. It all depends on person and coin$.
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