Take it apart or not?

Should I take this apart for the individual coins or leave it as a set?

 

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I can't see a reason to take it apart. It is what it is and looks really nice. Is there a coin you feel is worth messing up the set?

 

Really depends on your storage space.
Yes if you Can you flip it for 2x what you paid.

 

I'd leave it for what it is, If there is a particular coin you want from it you can always take it out & replace it with another example...

 

Not really! Am just curious what other members would do! I will probably leave it as is unless someone gives a good reason not to!!

 

Please leave as a set as is. I think I’d find a frame for it and hang on my wall.

 

If these are the sets put together by the likes of Littleton or similar, many of the coins, generally, have been whizzed and so are better left alone as a nice display unit.

If not cleaned or whizzed, I'd probably look to check in the value of the coins. NOte that many times the reverse of these are affected by the glues etc used to hold the coins in place. So 50-50.. Your coins you do what you like. Me, I'd probably hang that lovely display up on my wall.

 

I would leave them all together. Since they're in the set I would say they belong together and--if you are going to keep the coins either way--I would keep it as the lovely looking set it is.

This is also a really good point.

 

I'm curious. I wonder why they left out the Morgan Dollar.

 

It really looks nice the way it is so I'd leave it alone. @Lueds brought up a good point. Do the coins snap in or are they held in place by an adhesive?

 

Normally I would take those coins out and put them in other holders for fear of them toning to dark because of that cardboard. The grades do not appear that high so I would maybe leave the coins in that holder. Looks like that Franklin half has already toned very dark.

 

Get it bigger one . . . .

Z

 

The examples are well circulated for the most part, I would leave it alone!

 

I’m in the keep the set together camp.

 

To quote the Beatles "Let It Be" and to quote @ZoidMeister
if you are able to Capitol Plastics makes some nice holders for 20th Century sets.
Here's mine.

 

This set is hanging on the wall in my office. It draws a lot of attention and I use it to teach people about the older type coins.

 

I'm in the leave it as is camp. I see no reason to disentomb them.

 

I think you should either:
A) replace the coin(s) you want to take out with another of the same variety
B) leave as is

 

I love the display piece. The one shown and any that have some descriptive writing. One of the reasons to put together type sets is to show what our coins have looked like throughout our history. One question does pop up from a comment made by Lueds: "If these are the sets put together by the likes of Littleton or similar, many of the coins, generally, have been whizzed..." Is this something that is true and generally known? My father never had much money, but he bought a lot of coins from Littleton ($1.00-$5.00 or so, sometimes a little more) and got so much joy from getting them, recording them in his own record book and just looking through them. When he got sick I used to sit with him and discuss his coins and it was a memorable experience. He recovered from that illness and lived another 10 years during which we always looked at and discussed the coins whenever I was able to travel from PA to Conn and make a visit. I guess I would be disappointed if the comment were true since I now have a large number of those Littleton coins still in their little baggies. However, I am more thankful for them being available and affordable for my father because of the relationship strengthening they provided.

 

This might seem like a weird idea to many, but I'd give it away to a budding YN.