What do I lose if...

What do I lose if I remove coins from coin cards? Does that make them unwanted or uncolectable? What about their value?

I already have almost all non expensive 2 euro coins in my collection and about 8 months ago I decided to keep buying one expensive 2 euro coin a month. I plan to keep doing that and I would eventually like to get them all. I am also organizing my 2 euro collection now and making a cool album to display my coins, but my San Marino and Vatican coins are in stupid boxes and I can't remove them without demaging the box. I can't display those coins in my new super cool album and coin cards give me no satisfaction. In same time I afraid to take them out of boxes because I heard they lose value... One thing is sure, once you take them out, you can't put them back. What to do?

Any thoughts, questions, concerns and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

I have similar thoughts.
Vatican is easy to get out coins (from sets and 2 euro cards) without damaging the card.
San Marino is harder, but still possible.
There are guys selling empty coin boxes from Vat and SanM time by time in e- bay. :)

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Almost all current 2€CC but Belgium 2014 redcross are usualy available without coincards. Like you I gather them in a book.


I'd rather recommend to adapt the storage for coins available only in coincards or boxes.
For example, my Tuvalu coin was in an envelop, so I've adapted my storing way for it


The management is an art to play with constraints when the wild liberalism strives to destruct them

I have absolutely no hesitation in pulling coins out of packaging. Do we collect packaging? No, we collect coins. I've pulled apart many a boxed set and mint set pack and the world hasn't come to an end.

I've actually found that you can re-sell coins taken out of packaging for much more than the cost of buying a set because most people don't actually like the packaging, but they're too chicken to pull them apart themselves.

Citeer: "neilithic"​I have absolutely no hesitation in pulling coins out of packaging. Do we collect packaging? No, we collect coins. I've pulled apart many a boxed set and mint set pack and the world hasn't come to an end.
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​I've actually found that you can re-sell coins taken out of packaging for much more than the cost of buying a set because most people don't actually like the packaging, but they're too chicken to pull them apart themselves.

​Yes exactly! This is why I dont have the Vatican or San Marino coins...I dont want the packaging. I have taken other coins out of coin cards...like some silver danish coins from the 60s. I like coins not wasteful packaging! :)

Same, if I need a BU coin and I can only get it in a card pack then that is what I get and remove the coin, I still keep the packaging and damage it as little as possible, but it isn't for any collecting gain, some of them have nice info about the coins background and reason for existing.

Thank you all. Now when I know I am not the only one, it is easier to break the package :)

It's a win-win situation as far as I can see. People that like just the coins get the coins they want. And with every set disassembled, the ones belonging to the people who collect the sets get more rare.

I am very different to most of you, as I am unable to remove a coin from it's original packaging.
If it comes in a first day cover then that is how it stays and is filed away in my special folders.
Coin cards are the same. Filed as bought.
I have just put a coin onto the system, awaiting validation, which commemorates the 40th anniversary of England winning the World Cup. Lots of lovely photos and information included. It would, in my opinion, be sacrilege to destroy the packaging.
But from a storage point of view, it does take up space, but I'm prepared to put up with it, especially as some of the coins I have in first day covers, do not ever seem to be available loose.
I respect everyone's choices and hopefully, I am at coin fairs before you.

I did meet a guy in New York who threw away everything except the coin within in capsule. These were silver proof commemorate dollars. Out went the outer sleeve, the actual box and the certificate. These are the parts that I love. The coin is part of this little family of items.

Therefore can I ask a question?
I have a three coin set of GB coins from 1989 which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Sovereign.
There is a half sovereign (km#955), full sovereign (km#956) and double sovereign (km#957).
It comes in it's original box with numbered certificate.
Would you throw out the box and certificate?

Citeer: "COINMAN1"​Therefore can I ask a question?
​ I have a three coin set of GB coins from 1989 which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Sovereign.
​There is a half sovereign (km#955), full sovereign (km#956) and double sovereign (km#957).
​It comes in it's original box with numbered certificate.
​Would you throw out the box and certificate?

​In a heartbeat

Citeer: "neilithic"In a heartbeat

Hahaha.

I also remove coins from coin cards and boxes. Although I'm not throwing them away (yet).
Certificates are a bit overrated. People who have the skills to make difficult to detect fake coins are also capable of making fake certificates.

Would I trow out the box and certificate? I don't know. I do know that the box and certificate give me no pleasure as a collector.

All my coins are in 2by2s and coin album. I guess I dislike coins in boxes because I can't put them together with the rest of my coins and it feels like those coins are not even in my collection.

I feel exactly the same and for the same reason.

me also

So, my next question?
If you had the opportunity to buy a complete collection of a set of coins that came in it's original box, with the appropriate certificate, would you dump the beautifully crafted box ect.
I have a set of 24 coins, face value $50 each, from the Marshall Islands which commemorates the various stages of mans exploration into space. In the box, they look magnificent. Take them out of the box and they just become coins mixed up with other non space orientated coinage.
So, however much the box might be worth, you would dump it?

No matter how many times you ask or whichever way you ask it, the answer is always going to be yes. I don't care about boxes, I don't care about certificates. As someone else said, if you can forge a coin, you can forge a certificate.

As I've said before, I've found that coins actually sell for more when they're split up than they do together in a set.

I think I will close my case now, although I am closing a box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!