Today I Removed

[Shinus73]

A 2012 Denali ATB from its NGC slab - significantly easier than removing them from PCGS slabs.

[airmac]

Why did you do that? Any specific reason?

[JunkBond]

mind your fingers

[Shinus73]

9 minutes ago, airmac said:

Why did you do that? Any specific reason?

Storage issue - a full set of ATB's in slabs would need its own wardrobe.

[Scuzzle]

I've found the easiest way that works with any slab is just to use a hot soldering iron, you just draw round the outline of the coin 5-10mm outside it and melt through the top layer of plastic then lift of the plastic disc and the coin drops out.

[Pete]

If you have a spare ATB 5 oz Hawaii Volcanoes I can take it off your hands leaving you a bit more space.

[Shinus73]

26 minutes ago, Scuzzle said:

I've found the easiest way that works with any slab is just to use a hot soldering iron, you just draw round the outline of the coin 5-10mm outside it and melt through the top layer of plastic then lift of the plastic disc and the coin drops out.

Sounds like a good technique, but requires owning a soldering iron, which I'm unlikely to ever consider!

[sovereignsteve]

4 hours ago, Scuzzle said:

I've found the easiest way that works with any slab is just to use a hot soldering iron, you just draw round the outline of the coin 5-10mm outside it and melt through the top layer of plastic then lift of the plastic disc and the coin drops out.

other than this method, would anyone advise on a good way to extract a coin from a PCGS slab, without risk (to the coin)

[airmac]

Diamond cutter?