Thoughts On Busting Out Slabbed Coins For Filling Album Pages

Several very good points have been made above. In the end whether you bust out a coin of a slab or don't that's up to you. I have slabbed coins that cost $3 and a raw coin that cost over $800. Both have there places. I like complete albums hence why I have raw coins and I like the idea of a higher quality set in slabs. I will agree that if I spent over $200 for a slabbed coin I would be reluctant to break
It out. But if I purchased an expensive coin raw (1909 S VDB, 16D or 1877), I would keep raw and in an album.

Hence why I have this:



And this

Are you looking to adopt someone that will be willing to continue that tradition?

Has anyone ever thought about starting a marketplace for the labels removed from cracked-out NGC and PCGS slabs? Perhaps people who want to update their online Registry Sets would be willing to purchase the labels/registry numbers at a modest price.
It would be a win-win situation: The collector would still have the physical coin in their album, while the Registry user would have a legitimate number to add to their set.

To me, breaking a slab to fill an album slot is some sort of hole-filling fixation disorder. There must be a name for it.

and the sellers could re-sell, and re-sell the same numbers over and over again - and then PCGS and NGC would explode...

I should have noted that any coin I will (hypothetically) free from a slab will probably not lose much value. We are talking lower mid-grade circulated coins to fill an album hole. If it makes you feel better, there are only six of these holes left; so in theory, only six coins will be "ruined" for going raw into an album.

I am only looking at slabbed coins because of potential online purchases. There is a good chance I can fill these six holes with a raw example if I can ever get back to a coin show.

With that being said, let it be known that I do have a PCGS graded set of Ike & associated dollars. Those will never be cracked.

That is the full graveyard.

95% of my collection was assembled raw, so in my case, I didn't want to have most of my collection in albums and then a few slabs off to the side. Just my personal preference.

I do have some coins in slabs as well - either too expensive to break out like my 09-S VDB or stand alone coins where I have a suitable duplicate to put into an album if applicable.