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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 6561049, member: 66&quot;]Don&#039;t try to remove the Morgan from the Buick encasement, it is actually worth more that way.&nbsp; There are collectors of encasements.&nbsp; If you were to remove it you would find that the coin itself is already damaged from the encasement process.</p><p><br /></p><p>Encasements are made by putting the coin into a close fitting blank ring of metal and then using dies with a central hole to strike the ring just in the same way that coins are struck.&nbsp; The metal of the ring tries to expand outward against a close collar, but it also expands inward and presses against the edge of the coin with great force.&nbsp; This &quot;locks&quot; the two pieces together and actually deforms the edge of the coin into a slight concave which holds the two pieces together even more so.&nbsp; In some case the hole in the die will be slightly smaller than the diameter of the coin so it presses against both the rim of the coin and the edge of the ring creating an even tight bond between the two.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you were to force the coin out of the ring or cut the ring away you would find the edge, and possibly the rim, of the coin would show damage greatly reducing any numismatic value[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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