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Message:: [QUOTE="kanga, post: 413376, member: 9270"]Just remember, once you crack it out everyone gets a chance to grade it, even if you kept the label.The slabbed MS-63 you bought could very well look like MS-62 to the dealer you are trying to sell it too. I empathize with your desire to get "closer" to your coins.I also have cracked out any number of coins.Later when I had a change of heart I got several rude surprises. And a couple pleasant ones too.Such things as the cracked out AU or MS coin that came back body bagged. Had several of those.Some came back a grade lower; and some came back higher (but not as many.)One of the interesting ones was an IHC that was originally MS-65RD. It came back MS-66RB. I guess that was a push. Nowadays if I buy a slabbed coin, it stays that way.That leaves holes in my albums, but I know I have those coins.If I'm doing a show-and-tell it's not important that there's an album hole where a 1914-D should be. For most people seeing one wheat-back Lincoln is enough. The rest look the same.That's why I do a type set.[/QUOTE]