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Rest in Peace
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Finally got the guts to do it. Hacksaw + vice is pretty easy but scary for large coins like silver dollars. The following coins are now in my album: 1892 Barber quarter, ANACS AU-58, triple die rev 1890 half dollar, NGC AU 55 1964 kennedy, PCGS 65 (toned) Edited by coinguybrian
03/15/2009 8:08 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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pretty easy but scary  Who said this isn't an exciting hobby? Did you make sure that all the little plastic shavings got off your coins? I bet they looked even better when you got the coins free. Edited by TNG
03/15/2009 8:20 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Try Vise-Grips next time. Start at the top of the slab and break each corner.
The hack-saw sounds scary.
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Cracking each corner is scarier for me, but ill do that for silver dollars. No real choice.
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Just my opinion.... I could see taking the Barbers out of the slabs in order to put them in albums, although if the triple die quarter was attributed as such on the slab I would not have cracked it. A collector interested in that variety would probably pay a bit more for one in the attributed slab. If you never expect to sell this coin then it won't much matter. I would definitely have left the Kennedy half in the slab. The PCGS capsule provides assurance that the toning is not artificial and could increase the sale price. It is so easy to find decent BU 1964 halves that I would have just picked up a raw one for maybe $6 to put in the album. If you're pleased with the album additions, then everything's cool!  |
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The only reason I took it out of the slab was for my type set, since that's why I bought it in the first place. Same with the barber, actually. Don't really plan to sell it for awhile, bought it thinking the triple die wasn't worth anything more anyway. Saving the labels, though.
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just about all the coins in my 7070 album was previously entombed in a slab because I wasn't familiar with the series all that well so I figured the best way to be pretty sure that it met my requirements was to buy them already authenticated and graded by an expert
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I buy slabbed coins when I like them, both to hold onto and to crack. I try to buy raw but often it's really hard to get an original coin. It can happen eventually, though. Some of the coins in my set have been raw. I dropped $640 on the seated half though, thought about reselling it because similar ones went for about $900 on heritage, but it looked so nice that I just cracked it.
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I buy the coin, not the slab. Like Bryan, I have purchased many slabbed coins for my 7070. All the gold coins were once slabbed, that way I know they are genuine and can be somewhat sure of the grade due to my inexperience with grading old gold. I just cracked out a 1909 ten dollar Indian this weekend. I crack mine out with a dremmel tool and a small saw blade. Run this all around the seam and than it cracks open easily with a screwdriver.
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I never thought of cracking a coin, except for a non TPG. But, I guess it makes sence if you bought it for that reason. I agree they do look better in hand. |
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Try Vise-Grips next time. Start at the top of the slab and break each corner. bherring1964, I'm interested in your technique. Do you put each Vise-Grip jaw along the seam, or do you put each Vise-Grip jaw on the front and back of the slab? |
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