To Crack Or Not To Crack That Is The Question.

The slab's already cracked, so fate is telling you to finish the job!

1928 is a common date, not much above melt unless it's MS-67, so this is a perfect coin for the $20 St. Gaudens hole in any 7070.

Slabs are an unnatural place for coins to be IMO.
Unless your reselling or there are authenticity questions free them
(or possibly slabs are useful to preserve coins)

Yes I would crack it out

Nice. I'm always for liberating coins. :)

I liberated this one for my type collection.

Sorry I didn't see this thread in the voting stage, but better late than never!

On the cracking issue, I favor a bipartisan approach:

My 7070 coins are all cracked out. I love to fill those holes, and look at the different series side-by-side.

My Half Cents are all slabbed. I want to do a registry set of grade-matched coins, and I also like the preservation aspect.

As far as muddler's specific coin goes - there is no shortage of MS61 1928 Saints. And nothing feels so much like *money* as a double eagle resting heavy in your palm!