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Cracked out the morgan from the PCI holder. Original thread here https://goccf.com/t/154642 It was my best crack out ever, but only the third one I have done. Here is a pic of the first it was a 1962d Dime MS64 done with a hammer.  The PCI Crack result is captured here  Here is the tools used  Last but not least here is the coin now freed. It is going to get sent in to NGC most likely. I might wait till the ANA in August and drop it off in person. (figures crossed for 63pl, would be super happy with 63dmpl and kinda bumed if it got 62ed with a pl or dmpl)     Thanks for reading this. Feel free to post any thoughts you may have. Good luck tracking down whatever you are hunting or on grades on things. |
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Good luck brenpickel! I'll have to show the tool I just found that is cracking PCGS coins easily - My first 50 or so crackouts involved a hammer, and several actually injured me, I began wrapping a towel around the slab to keep flying bits of plastic shrapnel from taking out an eye! I have had pieces stick into my arm before. Since using my new tool, it's a quick two grip squeeze the slab breaks apart cleanly at the label line, then one more at the center of the bottom - cracks entirely in half yet remains together until I pull them apart over a towel letting the insert and coin fall out, if I don't grab the coin by the insert ring first. Not one issue yet, all crack outs have been smooth as silk.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Here is what I use, cutting pliers. Love it!  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Good luck! Let us know what it comes back as.
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I was happy you freed it! But then you said it's going back in the plastic tomb. Boo hoo!
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A large pair of slip joint pliers works wonderfully also, followed by a small flat blade screwdriver to separate the two halves. I've probably given a couple hundred their freedom (including Hawaiian and Spanish Trail Commemoratives) and have yet to damage a coin (famous last words)....
As an aside ICG slabbed coins are by far the most difficult to "liberate".
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63PL sounds about right, maybe a +. Nice coin, good luck!
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She is back. I dropped her off at ANA and just got her graded on site. A bit more money, but less wait time and no mail.  First time getting something graded, and it was a success. |
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Posted 08/02/2013 11:49 pm
