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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 4019673, member: 19165&quot;]For me, I&#039;d have to satisfactorily answer a few questions to myself before I cracked them: </p><p><br /></p><p>1. Is the slab doing harm to the coins? Some plastics may contain harmful chemicals. If the slab is harming the coins, I&#039;d instantly crack it and no further questions are necessary. </p><p><br /></p><p>2. What am I going to store the coin in instead? Is there another holder that I&#039;d prefer to display my coins in? Is there some presentation that I prefer over the slab? If I don&#039;t have a suitable replacement storage, then I see no reason to crack it out. </p><p><br /></p><p>3. Am I going to try to cross these coins to a top TPG instead of what they&#039;re in? If so, I&#039;d submit in the slab and let the TPG crack it rather than risking harm myself. </p><p><br /></p><p>4. Am I trying to resell it? Sometimes a raw coin might actually sell for more than a coin in the wrong slab. </p><p><br /></p><p>5. Is the slab &quot;historic&quot; or important? Is there a potential that it may have value in the future, to slab collectors or as an artefact of the hobby? You might not think that coin boards are collectibles, but there&#039;s currently a very active market collecting the sorts of things that many of us would throw away. Perhaps in a few years, these slabs might be on that list. </p><p><br /></p><p>There isn&#039;t really a right or wrong answer to these questions - ultimately, you have to decide for yourself. However, these are the sorts of things I&#039;d think about before I cracked them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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