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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 2218434, member: 19165&quot;]Anyone else have any experience cracking the new PCGS slabs? </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the things that started my collecting journey when I was a wee lad was one of those old Whitman thumb-busters. My Grandpa gave me a set of Lincoln folders (wheaties up through the present) which he had seeded with 10 or 12 pennies of varying dates. Over the years, I&#039;ve been filling it in, a couple of pieces a year. Its gotten down to where the only holes remaining are the key dates. </p><p><br /></p><p>So the other day, I was on Ebay and saw a 1913D in PCGS AU-58 for a reasonable price, so I picked it up. It came and it was time to put it in the album.... but cracking out was nearly impossible! These new slabs are tough! I finally demolished the slab, but in the process I had to break it into about a million sharp slivers. If this was a higher grade, uncirculated coin I would have been very nervous. I finally managed to get it out and into the album without any damage. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk68/physicsfan/various/IMG_1168%20copy_zpshjdpgnfh.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk68/physicsfan/various/IMG_1170%20copy_zpsk2gnms7s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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