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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;usc96, post: 4624882, member: 25676&quot;]Nothing wrong with preferring raw. I have both. Many of my series are raw and in Dansco albums, but I have a slabbed registry Type Set that I started after I finished my Dansco 7070 album. Dansco does not make albums for two of the series I collect, but the PCGS online registry offers a virtual Dansco album for those sets so I buy those already slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I noticed you mentioned buying $30 Walkers. I would have no problem breaking those out of a slab and putting them in an album. However, if you start looking at thousand dollar plus Mint State key dates (I believe the 1921 issues are key for Walkers), then you might want to test whether it is economically worth while to break a coin out of a slab before risking the money. Will you be able to get it back into a slab with the same grade, or is fair grading reserved for big name dealers that spends $$$ with the TPG?</p><p><br /></p><p>One experiment might be to break out a coin in the hundred dollar range, then try to sell it to a trusted coin shop. Will they pay you anywhere near what you paid, or is the now raw coin treated as damaged goods? I would expect to get some amount back of gray sheet, but do they offer you 85%? 50%? Less?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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