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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2337835, member: 76863&quot;]Not necessarily.&nbsp; Keep in mind that there is a portion of collectors that resist slabs, when they first started out that portion was even higher than today.&nbsp; New coins come to market from collections getting sold, some people crack slabs or prefer albums even for high end coins ect.&nbsp; But the percentage of slabbed coins as certainly gone up since they started out 30 years ago so unless someone got the upgrade or an owner of an older slab recognizes one of his coins it is really impossible to say whether or not it ever upgraded.&nbsp; Some coins certainly did, some may have just been reholdered into the nicer slabs as well as not everyone has the frenzy for the older slabs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The one real advantage the older slab has is it can show you whether or not a coin is stable.&nbsp; A nicely toned coin that was slabbed 10 years ago is relatively stable if it hasn&#039;t changed ect.&nbsp; However the brand new slabs were designed to do their best to minimize what gets into them from the outside if you can drop them in water and only the slab gets wet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But yes cracking out coins believed to be an upgrade candidate is certainly part of the hobby.&nbsp; If you look at population reports with a big price difference between two grades the population in the lesser grade is almost certainly somewhat inflated by crackouts where people are trying to get that next grade up and the huge value jump.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If I had to pick between those two I like the look of the first one better based off the pictures.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They change the labels some time to time, they changed the back of the label drastically with the new slab they introduced last year.&nbsp; I do really like the new NGC label presentation wise with the writing moved to the left but prefer the clear look of the PCGS slabs overall.&nbsp; If NGC would use clear prongs to hold the coin I would like their slab a lot better.&nbsp; Though with the different plastics they use, it is significantly harder to get scratches off of NGC ones then PCGS if you scuff them up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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