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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2951976, member: 83956&quot;]I thought New Year’s Day would be an appropriate time to liberate Antoninus Pius and his piggies.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]721356[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This was my only slabbed coin, and in some weird way, this coin never really felt integrated into my collection; it was always kind of an afterthought kept in a box separate from my Lighthouse trays.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I watched slab-busting videos all morning on YouTube. There seem to be two schools of thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Take a hammer to the edges and crack it open.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Take tin snips or wire cutters to the edges, clip them off, and then pry the slab open with a knife or screwdriver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Guys who had slabbed sports cards tended to prefer the latter option, perhaps because it seemed safer to the more delicate object inside.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was afraid to take a hammer to my slab because the bottom of my coin has a pretty significant crack on the edge--probably one reason why it was affordable for me, and possibly why this coin was slabbed in the first place—to hide the crack a bit and to keep the coin stable. I was afraid that the blunt force of the hammer could turn that crack into a chip.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]721357[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So I took wire cutters to the corners. The plastic was too tough for my first cutter’s efforts, so I had to go to my heavy duty clippers, which worked just fine. After that, prying open the slab with a screwdriver was no problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>The flan crack, once fully revealed, was pretty significant, but seems stable.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now Antoninus Pius and his piggies can play with his friends!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]721358[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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