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Cracked Some Slabs Tonight

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 Posted 02/06/2009  1:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I do the same. I have no slabs, only albums.
Might I make a suggestion. You said you tape the slab lables to the inside cover of the album. The problem is if you change albums, this is a pain in the you know what. What I do is on a sheet of paper the size of the album, I title it slabbed coins. Then using those pieces of paper that have that sticky stuff on it, I tape the slab labels to those and then stick those on to that added on sheet of paper and that is on the front of the albums.
Now with Whitman, there is always a sheet of paper advertisement inside when you buy one new. It is on the front of the pages. If that is present, I use that for the sticky paper with the lables on it.
The purpose of all this is if you change coins in an album, you can just peel off the associated sticky paper with the associated slabbed label and move it to the album with the coin.
This may not apply to most people but I have, for example, 12 Mercury dime Albums, 10 Lincoln Cent Albums, etc., etc., etc. I find myself many times over the years moving coins so my system is great for me.
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 Posted 02/06/2009  2:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add okie-colin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Carl. That makes sense. I have already changed out a commemerative Half that had a label in the back of my album, for another that I liked better. Luckily the scotch tape came off easily with no damage. As I see it right now I won't be starting any new albums that will involve slabbed coins. I did do a second Franklin half album, but unlike the first it was all circulated stuff with no slabs.
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 Posted 02/06/2009  2:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add okie-colin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
"I prefer using a bolt cutter on them suckers!

Ken"
I'll have to try that Ken. I use a Dremmel with a little round saw. I go around the seam and than carefully pry it apart with a screwdriver. This method requires safety glasses because the plastic melts and the rotating blade slings it out. I have done probably twenty slabs this way and never damaged a coin, or myself.
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I use my electric compound miter chop saw Not for the faint of heart
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Brought some Dansco albums home today and broke open the following slabs to free the coins... in the end for me, the albums were not complete until the key coins resided in the holes.
I agree!

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You just committed to the love of collecting, not the financial side of it.
I agree!

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