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New Member
United States
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Just wondered what people do when you have high dollar key date coins "blank" or missing in your dansco etc type albums when you have the coin slabbed? I often place a coin with the reverse on the front of page (coin is backwards) have though about printing a photo of coin from slab but don't want to introduce something that may cause a coin to tone from the photo. I don't like having holes in my albums. I typically only buy a coin slabbed when the price/worth exceeds 500 since I am not that experienced grading or detecting all cleaned coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You can print out something on archival grade paper then trim it to fit in the hole. I know there was a member here who did something similar awhile back. It listed the date and mintmark and then the TPG grade (e.g. 1921-D 50c NGC AU55 or whatever) Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
Keep the coin slabbed, and the hole vacant.
Easier to re sell that way, if you have to.
Most collectors are trying to build a set, and do that by collecting individual coins. For most, there is no challenge or fun it the hunt, when you acquire a complete collection.
So look for a hole filler, in the knowledge that you already have a nice coin for that spot. That way, you still have the fun of the hunt. Cheaper than acquiring two identical nice coins, one slabbed and one un slabbed.
You have just touched on one of the reasons why I don't have a slabbed coin anywhere in my collection.
A slabbed coin does not fit into the narrative of my collection, because it has to be stored separately.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4680 Posts |
I did what paralyse recommended for awhile, but ultimately, wanted to have everything together, so I got to cracking slabs. Album coins stay in albums and if I buy a slabbed example for an album, they get cracked. If it's not for an album, it stays in its slab.
Only exception being a higher priced/ higher graded set, or one where every coin is purchased already graded. Those all stay in slabs in a binder. It doesn't make sense to crack an entire set assuming each coin is $150+
If you're worried about resale down the road as sel mentioned, I'd keep it slabbed.
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New Member
 United States
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I'm just afraid in the case of my Morgan dollar collection I have spent many years acquiring AU to low MS coins and lacking fewer than 10 coins in the set (key dates) that I could get a cleaned coin or something a slight grade off that would cost me big (mistake) in the long term. I prefer to have my coins in albums where I can enjoy looking at them. Unfortunately I didn't get started on Morgan's soon enough. On other coin sets I bought the key date coins first. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
How about building a slabbed set of key date/mm's only?
I did that with an all denomination bronze and silver set, made up only of the scarce date/mm's only.
Slab albums are available.
Quote I heard from a coin dealer:-
"The rare coins get rarer, the common coins stay common"
It is us collectors that make it that way.
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Moderator
 United States
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I have cracked out a few slabbed coins to fill mt album holes, but only ones that didn't cost me a huge amount (usually under $150.00). I did, however keep the slab label that came out of the slab and notate the reverse side of it as to where I placed the coin (which album, page # and the hole I placed it in ) for future reference.
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12/30/2021 09:12 am
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United States
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I have six holes remaining in my Dansco albums, all key dates that are destined to be filled from slabbed coins. I will most certainly crack them and fill the holes, no proxies allowed! I am buying lower-mid grade examples anyway, so cracking is not going to end the world.  Resale? Bah! Never my intention or in my plans. If my heir(s) do not want to keep my legacy intact, then shame on them for cashing in.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Resale? Bah! Never my intention or in my plans. If my heir(s) do not want to keep my legacy intact, then shame on them for cashing in. My thoughts exactly!!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is a dilema for me. I have no issues cracking out $200 and lower cost coins but higher cost I tend to keep in the slab. As to higher grades the only sets that have mostly Mint State coins is my ASE collection (and those are bullion so no issues), my Lincoln cents (and I'm at the point that upgrading the remaining that aren't MS may not be cost effective in raw) and my 20 century type set. This was one reason I did the 7070 in slabbed. It's a lot of money to pay when you might not get the cost back in raw. |
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United States
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You can get these tokens, which come from broken open mint sets, that are exactly the same size as a small cent. Frequently available on ebay for $6 for 50.  Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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Valued Member
United States
465 Posts |
For my Morgan and Peace set I put a slider AU/bu common date with the reverse showing to indicate the hole is filled with a slabbed coin which I keep in a separate notebook. This was easy when the sliders were $20 each but at $35 plus I've considered replacing with Eisenhower dollars. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Resale? Bah! Never my intention or in my plans. If my heir(s) do not want to keep my legacy intact, then shame on them for cashing in. Same for me. I have all my coins in Albums. Regardless of value, into an Album they go. I want a complete set so I want all coins for a set to be together. As an example:  Edited by just carl
12/30/2021 10:15 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4591 Posts |
You can buy plastic disks on ebay (I saw them last night) of the appropriate diameter. The ones I saw were milky white plastic with a blue printing... "certified coin" or some such. Search for certified coin proxy -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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United States
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Not only do I want to find lower grade coins in slabs, but I am looking for slabs that are cracked, scratched, or otherwise damaged. Then I will have even less guilt over their eventual fate. |
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Valued Member
United States
117 Posts |
I'm afraid to put something other than a coin in the slots in case there is an unforeseen chemical reaction so decided on just taking a spare of that type and put the reverse front facing.
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