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<p>[QUOTE="tanner520, post: 30003, member: 1613"]This seems like an appropriate time to ask this with the release of the 2005 Silver Eagles by the Mint very soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've heard that if you try to get Silver Eagles out of the tube that you can ruin them by causing rim knocks. Is that true? How can you safely get them out of the tube without causing damage to the coins and still be able to re-use the tube for storage, in other words not ruin the tube? Do rim knocks lower the coin's grade? If I just "bang" them out of the tube into my hand carefully, it doesn't seem like I would nick the field of the coins since they're all stacked on top of each other so the only thing I can think of is the rim being damaged somehow.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd like to hear from the people that do this sort of thing regularly and learn what can and cannot be done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="tanner520, post: 30003, member: 1613"]This seems like an appropriate time to ask this with the release of the 2005 Silver Eagles by the Mint very soon. I've heard that if you try to get Silver Eagles out of the tube that you can ruin them by causing rim knocks. Is that true? How can you safely get them out of the tube without causing damage to the coins and still be able to re-use the tube for storage, in other words not ruin the tube? Do rim knocks lower the coin's grade? If I just "bang" them out of the tube into my hand carefully, it doesn't seem like I would nick the field of the coins since they're all stacked on top of each other so the only thing I can think of is the rim being damaged somehow. I'd like to hear from the people that do this sort of thing regularly and learn what can and cannot be done.[/QUOTE]
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