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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;darthvadeur, post: 728716, member: 17379&quot;]At one time I thought slabs were safe enough, then I found a new green spot on one of my slabbed half cents over the weekend...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Looking closer at a few other coins (slabbed), I found lint, tiny flakes of paint, an eyelash, and other miscellaneous debris, mind you these were PCGS and NGC slabs, not any of those fradulent copycat companies.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You&#039;d think with the amount of money these companies charge to slab a coin they&#039;re at least able to buy some of those compressed air keyboard dusters?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I personally use Coinworld holders for the raw coins, I&#039;d buy the dollar-sized inserts, then cut down a PCGS slab ring to make 3 prongs that suspend the coin inside the dollar-sized opening. The neat thing is the edge is now visible, and the coin sits pretty snug in its holder (one of my other NGC-slabbed half cents is just a bit too small for the opening so it rattles around). The coin that had the green spot is now sitting in one of these holders after I blew off the thing causing the green spot with compressed air. So I forfeited the slab grade, at least it won&#039;t look like a rain forest in a few years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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