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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 379739, member: 12789&quot;]How to open a slab - all depends on the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some cheaper and less reputable TPG&#039;s-insert names please:</p><p><br /></p><p>- they open themselves.&nbsp; There is one TPG with <b><span style="color: Red">red</span></b> letters in it&#039;s logo that the slabs come apart, and I have even seen them with Scotch tape holding them together.</p><p><br /></p><p>-&nbsp; There is another four lettre TPG co that I know of, you can slide your thumbnail through the seams and open the slab up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Hmmm - sounds like quality to me! </i> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The top tier companies, that I can identify, NGC, PCGS and ANACS, have slabs which are more difficult.&nbsp; I have twisted those with &quot;robogrip&quot; pliers, and put them in vices etc. to open them.&nbsp; I have not done the dremel tool thing, since cutting plastic results in heat, and released chemicals from the plastic - which may harm the surface of the coin with time.</p><p><br /></p><p>If using a vice or pliers, do take care to carefully wrap the slab in old washclothes, towels etc.&nbsp; Know where the coin is in all the mess, so you don&#039;t damage it with all of your egregious efforts at it&#039;s liberation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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