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Pillar of the Community
United States
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When placing a PCGS box (holding 20 slabs, 19 of them full) in a safe place, I accidentally dropped it and the slabs spilled on the hard wooden floor. One slab for a 1916 dime (not the D!) has a big gash in the viewing area, and the other coins look good at first glance.
When the box fell I was terrified. These were my dimes and silver dollars. Do PCGS slabs protect coins from such falls well? Should I be worried about possible damage to the coins (not the slabs--slabs can always be replaced, I care about the coins themselves)?
I feel so stupid asking this, and even more stupid for the situation that prompted me to ask this.
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Moderator
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Protection from casual damage when dropped Is one of the tangible benefits of slabs. For all but the earliest-generation slabs, the coin is fixed in place and doesn't move, even when the slab is violently bashed about. Any force powerful enough to cause a coin to move inside a slab is likely to crack the slab apart first.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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@adam, I agree that what is important is the coin and not the slab. As to the situation, I feel comfortable saying that most of us have dropped coins so no need to feel stupid.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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A high level of protection is one of the reasons why some like slabs.
Screw seal capsules can do the same job, and can provide a slightly higher level of protection if they can provide an almost air tight seal. No grading fees required. With some of the smaller capsules, they can still be put in a standard album pocket .Small coins in slabs will not fit into a 2x2 album page.
However, 12 pocket slab album pages are available.
In answer to the OP's question, when a slab falls onto a hard surface, it almost always lands on a corner. In most cases, the slab will survive with little or no damage, Sap has already made the point that the coin is mounted safely and securely inside the slab.
In a fall, a standard 2x2 will also almost always fall on a corner. When a higher level of physical protection is required, I put 2 of 2x2 acrylic sheets inside the standard 2x2 on each side of the coin. The 2x2 can be slightly more difficult to staple seal closed.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thanks so much, guys for clearing up my anxiety. The box that dropped probably has most of my more valuable coins (there aren't too many of them, but I love them), so I was terrified.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Get you some Meguinar's PlastX and a micro fiber cloth with a little elbow grease it can remove the scratch on the holder.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I found a PCGS MS66 1943-S cent about four months after a cellar flood, in the mop-up muck. It had just, just started to corrode. The holder are g-o-o-d.
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Posted 08/01/2022 04:54 am
