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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 2755917, member: 15929"]I realize that this has been answered and that you've already released your coin but I thought I share what I do. The slab for the brown Ike's is haphazardly sealed. As such, some come apart easily while others are really, really, tough. Since there are no notches on the slab, I usually start with my X-Acto knife on one corner of the slab.I worked the knife with kind of a twisting motion on the seam until I can get the knife firmly into the corner. Next I do a little prying until I hear the slab crack.After this, I'll use one of the screw drivers from my hobby set and work the crack until I can slip the screw driver between the two halves of the slab. By now, the slab has separated about an inch or two along both edges.I then slip the screw driver into the slab about a quarter of an inch and then slide it down the slab on the long edge.Once you get going, the slab pretty much just comes apart but you have to be careful not to let the screw driver slip too far into the slab lest you drag it across the coin. Once the slab is separated, you'll have to free the coin from the black plastic insert. The hole in the insert is bevel (angled) where the top hole is slightly larger than the bottom. The coin needs to be released from the reverse side. If I cannot push the coin out, using either a soft handkerchief or cotton gloves, I'll hold the insert upside down and give it a twist over a soft cotton towel or some other sift surface. If the twisting doesn't work, I'll put the short edge of the insert on the towel and then bend the insert until the coin falls out. Some of these can be really tough BUT not nearly as tough as removing a proof IKE from wither the 1975 or 1976 Proof Sets. Those are danged near impossible since the seal is around each individual coin.[/QUOTE]

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