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Posted By: davidcycleback

The removed cards are worth significantly less than the album, so there's little worry of people, other than Jake Lamotta, cutting apart the albums to make money. (Trying to get money for for his bail in the movie Raging Bull, Jake Lamotta takes a hammer and knocks off the gems from his championship belt. The jeweler tells him that the value is in the intact belt, not the gems he has brought in.)