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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 3459109, member: 13650&quot;]Cracking out a 70 would be pointless.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; NGC and PCGS do registries and they now require that coins entered into your set can only be in &quot;their&quot; slabs to count for points. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; For some coins, there aren&#039;t that many examples of in certain grades so somebody who has a NGC registry set going might see one they like in a PCGS slab and crack it to cross over.&nbsp; Or vice versa.&nbsp; Or they may just send it in for a cross over, leaving it in the slab.&nbsp; I like to challenge the graders to see how they cross.&nbsp; So far NGC has matched PCGS grades even in instances when they didn&#039;t know what the original grade was.&nbsp; Even on stuff that was cracked out years ago.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I haven&#039;t cracked one out in years.&nbsp;&nbsp; I personally wouldn&#039;t crack anything out for an album regardless of value.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know what it costs to get something shipped, graded, slabbed and shipped back to you.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not only that but the slab provides superior protection.&nbsp; Premium coins are not meant to be handled anyway.&nbsp; &nbsp; Some stuff, it really doesn&#039;t matter.&nbsp; You can crack out something common and tape the label in the album and it&#039;s no big deal. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I would NOT crack out an entire Morgan set to put in a Dansco.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s essentially throwing away thousands in grading fees that someone else paid, loosing the superior protection and authentication, losing the 3rd party&#039;s opinion of grade and making your set equivalent to an album full of Chinese counterfeits.&nbsp; &nbsp; And if you think that&#039;s being extreme, there&#039;s at least one dealer that was fooled and bought a complete set of Chinese fake Morgans out there because I read an article about it.&nbsp; Due to the risk, cracking out the set probably cut the value down by 40% at least.&nbsp; Somebody would have to spend a few grand to re-slab them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Lighthouse makes great albums for storing slabs in if you need to look at an album but don&#039;t want to crack slabs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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