Reslabbing

Your question is a legitimate question, and one that has been asked a thousand times. I would even say that every time this subject has come up over the last 15-20 years that same question is asked, and with good reason.

The scenario and reasoning is this. Are you better off to leave a slabbed coin in the slab when submitting it to another grading company, or cracking it out and submitting it ? Those who argue in favor of cracking it out typically do so because they are afraid that the coin being in another company's slab will create a bias at the new company causing them to under-grade the coin. They "think" they have a better chance of the coin getting a higher grade if it comes to them raw that it does if it stays in the slab.

But there is absolutely no proof that this is the case. It is merely what they "think".

A big part of the reason there is no proof is because when a slabbed coin is submitted to another company for grading, that coin is first cracked out of the existing slab before the graders at the new company ever see the coin. So there can be no bias because the graders see the coin in its raw state no matter what.

The only time this sequence of events changes is when you submit coins for cross-over. And under the cross-over rules the coin must remain in the slab anyway. So coins submitted for cross-over are not even in this discussion. And besides that, NGC and PCGS will not even accept coins for cross-over in any slab other than an NGC or PCGS slab.

Bottom line, it doesn't matter if you crack the coin out or not because it's going to get cracked out before the new graders see it no matter what.

But like with most things there are exceptions. For instance, and I don't know that this is still the case but it certainly used to be, under certain grading tiers you can submitted a slabbed coin and request that the coin remain in that slab, and be returned to you in that slab, unless the graders think the coin will upgrade. If they do not think the coin upgrade, then it is left in its original slab and returned to you.

So that is about the only time you would ever wish to consider the question you are asking.