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It's really not that hard. When you hit the slab with a hammer and driver at just the right angle, it'll produce a crack that typically extends to the slab's edge. So from there, all you really need to do is find the crevice separating the two halves of the slab and PULL!

-Brian

 

You have to be pretty ham-fisted to damage the coin. With non-PCGS slabs I actually try to crack without damaging the holder. Just wrap the slab in a towel and firmly tap around the edges with a hammer.

Bolt cutters work brilliantly on PCGS slabs. 3 second operation.
Lance.

 

Your not risking the MS70 coin like that?

 

Its not my intention to take many coins out of holders but there might be one or two I'd like to for photographic purposes.

 

Genius! I'll have to try that towel-hammer method sometime.

And I could see why you cracked out that Walking half! Code 95? Wow. :rollling:

-Brian

 

got this at my local store for 125, couldnt believe it when he told me the price.

 

These ASE's are't anything special but they are new to me.

 

Two more from Kryptonite:

 

A new Lexington. This was in a PCI 64 holder that I paid AU money for. It does have a few hairlines as you can see but in hand they're not very evident and not too distracting.

 

OK here it is

 

Won this over the weekend.
These are the sellers pics. I did the editing, though.

 

The second of my two eBay victories over the weekend.
Again, sellers pics, my editing.

I also bought a crazy toned Washington quarter and three nice Jefferson's, hopefully I can get some good images of those soon and I will have them up here.

 

Nothing special but I got the 2012 ASE set in the mail today. Here are some quick photos

 

Got my new Morgan that I posted above. Trying my hand at axial lighting w/ my point-n-shoot. Please excuse the blurriness caused by the slab reflection on the bottom. Will continue to try and figure out coin photography!

 

Nice contrast on that one, Blade! :thumb:

And your imaging ain't too shabby either.

Keep it up. You'll only continue to learn and improve with each shot you take.

-Brian

 

Thanks, what's happening with each shot I take is me wanting to get a DSLR w/ a dedicated macro lens I ordered 2 jansjo's from amazon and am going to experiment with that as well.

 

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