Removing Coins from Slabs

I keep my coins in coin albums, so when I buy a slabbed coin, I like to break it out of the slab. That isn’t easy to do. The fellow at the coin shop yesterday said the pressure points (of the silver dollar I had purchased) are just above the coin, on each side of the slab, and at the bottom-center of the slab. All I can think of using is a pair of pliers.

Do any of you have any suggestions?

 

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If you don't have a band saw, you might want to try a hacksaw, mounting the slab in a vise. If you don't have a hacksaw and vise, you can trying wrapping the slab in a towel, hold it on its side on a hard surface and give it a good whack with a hammer. If you don't have a hammer, use C4.

Chris

 

Where do you buy C4?

 

Well, I've got a hammer, hand towel, and concrete slab.
Thank you for you suggestions.

 

i use a dremmel....

 

My method of breaking coins out of slabs is not much better. I use a pliers and a screw driver. It sends shards of plastic flying across the room, but I get the coin unharmed that way. Ha, ha!

 

I just put them in a vice with the edges of the slab touching the jaws and squeeze away. They pop apart no problem. It makes me smile to crack coins out of slabs.

 

I think I've used pliers in the past, also. It was a messy chore.

 

Steal it from the CIA!

Chris

 

So do I....cut the side away from the coin. Slide her out. Quick,easy,safe.

 

Maybe I could make some of my own. There's a True Value on my way home from work.

 

Wear goggles, please. It's hard to look at a coin with a shard of plastic in your eyes.

 

And... now you're on the NSA watchlist. Congrats.

 

I use linesmen pliers, some folks use end nippers

 

So you take a "Detail" coin in a slab break it out and sell it to some unsuspecting new collector as GEM Unc.
Wow

 

I remember someone who used this method, and the coin ended up falling to the floor a few feet below. Yes, they had the slab wrapped in a towel, but that didn't help prevent the accident.

Chris

 

I probably already was. I voted for a Socialist back in 1972.