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Pillar of the Community
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I'm about to crack open for the first time ever a proof set. What is the best way to open them? I've been playing with it for about 10 minutes trying to get the thing open.
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Pillar of the Community
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This has been mentioned before and this is how I do it.Take a sharp pointed knife and find the seam that runs around the package.Put the tip against the seam and drill back and forth until you have a small hole through the pastic and pry.The two halves will separate and them just carefully slide the knife around the package and both halves will come apart with no damage to the coins.
or you could use a sledge hammer.
Edited by Halfwitty
03/26/2010 8:41 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Sledge hammer might work. May damage coins though.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks, mission accomplished!
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Pillar of the Community
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Did you use the sledge Force?
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Pillar of the Community
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I was getting to that point but I avoided that option...lol
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Pillar of the Community
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Opened my first Silver Proof and Regular Proof Sets the other day....and the "knife method" worked very well for me too....  My new Dansco Territory album looks pretty good ! ....  But now I need to figure out the best way to mark my extra page that holds the Business Strikes......I put the Satin Finish, Proofs, and Silver Proofs in the regular pages. I really don't want to just write on the page......my handwriting has never immproved since about the 5th grade I think ! ......  It was a little "nervy" opening my first Proof Set though.....how'd you feel Force ? |
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Pillar of the Community
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I often wondered where the single proofs that are for sale came from. Is it a good idea to break open proof sets? It seems original is better to me. I just thought a lot of the "proofs" on ebay were over graded BU's. Of course I realize if you buy something it's yours to do as you please. And the proofs in the 70's and 80's are so cheap why not display them in a set, at least you can enjoy them. I'm just wondering what the ethics of breaking into sets were in the community? |
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Bedrock of the Community
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there are so many proof sets produced especially with moderns that only certain ones will ever be worth more than the single coins they have in there. Usually it is single coins that makes the whole set valuable and allot of dealers will crack them open to try and find the PF-70's to send in to a TPG and then sell of the rest for people filling albums |
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United States
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To Eaglefoot: Buy a Brother label-maker for the neatest way to label a Dansco page.
Edited by hugemistake2003
03/27/2010 4:00 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Many of the modern proof sets are acually worth less than issue price these days so really isn't any reason to keep the set sealed if you have an exceptional coin in there.
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But now I need to figure out the best way to mark my extra page that holds the Business Strikes.... Do not mark it. You know what is in there.  Are you concerned about your heirs knowing what is what? Print an "information sheet" and attach to the back of the album; or hole punch it and add after the last page. |
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Are you concerned about your heirs knowing what is what? Yeah, it's something like that. Because, after I die and go to that little trappers cabin in the sky, it might look like to the untrained/unknowledgeable eye that I just have an extra set of Business Strikes in there ! ...  So, yeah, it just the "identification" after I'm dead and gone that I was thinking about. I like your idea of putting an I.D. page in there. Hmmmm......."acid free" paper.....and if I laminated it or something... that would need to be PVC free plastic.....after all....I do have Proofs and Silver Proofs in there !! .... And this needs to last another 394 years or so for me...... |
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I am sure you will be able to find coin-safe materials to make the information sheet with.  |
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Posted 03/26/2010 8:45 pm
