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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LETSBUYCOINS, post: 66536, member: 2657&quot;]As Ive said before: I dont fully accept the slogan &quot;Buy the coin, not the slab.&quot; The dealers and collectors both seem to have a majority agreement that PCGS and NGC slabs give accurate grades.&nbsp; The other slabs are crap.&nbsp; I bought some NTC slabs: Its a fairly new start-up grading service out of boca raton florida, and the South Florida dealers hate the NTC slabs.&nbsp; OVER-grades galore, and one dealer says the NTC slabs sit in his inventory for years.&nbsp; If you send any lower-tier slabs to PCGS for re-grading, dont pay PCGS the extra money to break the slab.&nbsp;&nbsp; Get a Swiss-Army knife, (Or an imitation &quot;swiss army&quot; knife.) STEP 1:&nbsp; use the bottle-opener to crack the top edges off of the top of the slab.&nbsp; Step 2: Use the big knife, and slide it inside the slab and pry the two halves of the slab away from each other.&nbsp; TIP: do this over a pillow, so the coin falls on something soft.&nbsp; This my friends is how you break open a slab.&nbsp; Now you can send it for the re-grade.&nbsp; Its an easy process for breaking a slab, but at the same time, it does enough destruction, that you wont be able to slip another coin in the holder, if you get such a sleazy idea in your head.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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