Question For Those Working On Or Have Completed A Dansco 7070 Type Set.

While I'm not a type set person, I am being confronted with the same issue with my Morgans.

I don't know if this is possible for you, but what I will do with the coins that I'm going to keep slabbed (1893-S, 1889-CC) is take a few spare Morgans and put them reverse first in the holes. The certified coins'll never be far, and the album will look complete.

Thanks for everybody's ideas and suggestions. I think I am going to keep the coins in the slab for now and once I actually have the set complete I will probably crack them out. I am fairly confident that the slabbed coins are graded accurately and I think they would grade the same grade if I ever wanted to upgrade and resubmit the coin to a TPG before I sold it.

Well everybody...the set is now complete (minus the gold...I only have 3 of those!). Now I just have to wait until I receive them all. I hope to start a new thread the first part of next week that shows everything. I just don't think I can crack my slabbed examples out quite yet, but I am not ruling it out one day.

I was able to complete my 7070 with all raw coins. Although, I have several coins that need to be upgraded in the future.

To crack or not? For my Lincoln Cent collection, I did buy a 1914-D in VG08 condition that was slabbed. I got it cheap and it is my first coin I cracked out of the case to put into an album. While I had no problem doing that, I can't bring myself to cracking out my valuable 1909-S VDB "woody" AU58 to fill a hole. I think you need to weigh how much the coin is worth slabbed vs. unslabbed before making a decision.