Is this butchery

That's a fact, *if* it happened. It's not like I'd buy something like this without inspecting it closely, anyway. And at that point I would not care what the slab said, because I'd be choosing the appropriate price for each based on my own opinion of grade and color.

 

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Dave same here but it's just the retardation factor of taking pristine Coins breaking the slabs that cost 15-25 dollars or what have you be and butchering them placing the coins in amatures album ... Keep in mind even if he placed them Ina Capital plastic holder it would still be butchery

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I disagree.

 

That's a negative it's just that they are so common slabbed I need to get p&d slabbs from 1973-1999.. Pcgs or ngc

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I agree.

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It will be much cheaper for you to buy them on line than to try and get yours slabbed in probably every case for those dates.

 

Nope no craY cray uncle just a cray cray dad with a lucrative mind & hobby

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So now someone who chooses to use albums is an "amateur"? Ridiculous! Again, you can collect however you see fit, but is foolish for you to make such a blanket statement implying your way less amateurish or somehow better than others. In fact, it could reasonably be argued that those who rely on slabs are the true amateurs, but it would be equally ridiculous to paint with such a wide brush as there is no one size fits all with such things. The money coins seem mostly in holders iirc, so what you're making a big deal of is some guy who removed lower value material from them. Big deal.

That said, the slabs are placed over the would-be album holes, and isn't an unreasonable approach, but wasn't one well thought out.

 

That may be true, however, if one wanted to sell the coin at a later date, having it in a slab would interest a whole lot more potential buyers....Especially if selling on ebay where pictures can be obscure enough to make some buyers back-off.

 

I'm not saying that they are an amateur I'm saying albums are archival safe but they don't necessarily hold the same quality as a slab woulddon't get me wrong slap slaps albums are still great

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Of course, but what you're addressing is liquidity; Doug was not.

 

I know, I was just expanding on the merits of breaking coins out of slabs.

 

Look at me, I must be an amateur too!







Seriously, some collectors seem to be lost w/o slabs... I understand key dates should be certified to avoid buying altered/damaged/cleaned coins from poor pictures, but it certainly isn't required for common coins in available grades.

 

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with breaking coins out of slabs, I've done it too. My point was that if resale is a strong possibility, leaving it in the slab is probably the wisest thing to do.

 

Butchery? No.

Dumb? Yes.

 

I could not agree more!

Look, if folks want to build a Dansco Album of coins that meet a certain grading level or criteria, then by all means, do it. But don't pay the additional premium associated with a graded coin only to bust it out of it's "best chance" of redeeming a resale value based upon what was paid.

Buy raw and use your grading skills to achieve your goals.

 

From what I read in other posts, anybody buying this set would send in everything to be upgraded anyway so this seller just saved someone a lot of time and effort. You either buy the slab or you buy the coin. For that amount of money you need an iron clad guarantee that you can return the set after in-person examination if you don't think it's worth the money. Not many people want Lincoln Cents anyway. I have a complete set of wheats, including the keys, that I can't give away. Plus a second set missing only the S-VDB. Well, maybe I could give it away but nobody wants to pay a reasonable price for the either set. There are plenty left unsold on ebay.

 

I 1000% agree

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I agree as well.

 

gdjmsp i agree 100% but would you in your right mind pay that much for this set... i might consider based off of the 2 major key coins in the set its most redeeming qualitiies is the factor the 2-3 key coins of all the lincoln wheat cent series are slabb in dencent grades