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So I am working on my 1989 birth set and I bought my first slabbed coin.....but now I'm scared to break it and put it in my binder lol. I look at it and now I'm growing attached to it in the slab but also want it in the binder! What to do?!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Could do two sets, a slabbed set and an unslabbed
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Buy another for your book
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A lot will depend on whether, at some point, you decide to sell the coin, slabbed will yield a higher price from potential buyers, than a raw one in a 2x2.
The other factor to consider is the denomination, year, Mint, and any designations/attributions.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Break it out of that slab. If you start with one, you'll end up with many slabs and they take up space. Unless your planning on reselling a coin, they make little CENTS.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Depending on how much you want to spend: certified coin pages! Thats what I use. I love them. Can get about 50 coins in a 3 ring ring binder and easy to see them all at once |
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@ just carl
If he is just planning to keep certified coins from '89, then he should be ok.
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@ just carl
If he is just planning to keep certified coins from '89, then he should be ok. Usually true but most once they start keep saying to themselves, just one more. |
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Hmmm, ok. I only have one certified coin myself, and it was pretty much an impulse buy, but everyones different!
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Why would you buy slabbed coins only to break them open? If you're building a set you really ought to consider ahead of time whether you want it to be graded, ungraded or a mix of the two.
1989 had some fun penny issues too. Good Luck on the set.
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I look at it and now I'm growing attached to it in the slab but also want it in the binder! What to do?! What kind of binder are you using to hold the birth year set? The longer you wait, the less likely that you will crack it. With that being said... What are you waiting for? Crack it!  Quote:
Why would you buy slabbed coins only to break them open? Because it is possible that the only suitable coin to be found is going to be found in a slab. I am 99.9% certain that the last three holes in my Lincoln Dansco album (and more than a few holes in my 7070) will only be filled by purchasing and cracking a slabbed coin. |
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Why would you buy slabbed coins only to break them open? To add onto what Jbuck said also for coins that are heavily faked for added protection to make sure youre getting a real one especially if ordering online |
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I never understood why a person would buy a slabbed coin if he wanted to break it out.
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Why would you buy slabbed coins only to break them open? It's all on preference of the collector. I have a number of coins that were slabbed by PCGS, NGC, ANACS, and they have been all cracked out, placed in 2x2s in binder pages. |
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Posted 09/30/2012 02:42 am
