Agree - really like a LOT of the coins being posted, but it has to be in the right plastic ......
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
Well, it's not the weekend and I couldn't find a "Rare Mylar for the Weekend" thread so I'm posting this eBay purchase here. A first for me, a Blanchard sealed flip. Anyone seen one of these before?
Is it Friday yet? Just received this in the mail. Sometime in the last 31 years, someone broke into the holder and replaced the photographed Morgan with a much less interesting version of a '78-S:
Does that Blanchard flip have a Cointain holding the coin?? Looks well preserved.
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
What's special? (Especially, with the last post being so over the top?)
To David and my knowledge, this is the first USVI 50SQ/ATB sample discovered.
There are several stoppers in trying to build a 56-coin sample set, with the Territories being among the toughest... from hardest to relative easiest (my estimation):
1 Type/Unique for Puerto Rico: ANACS - 5oz Silver El Yunque (Schwager# ANACS-Ag5-3-1)
1 Type / only 1 sale recorded for American Samoa (National Park of American Samoa, Fruit Bat): ANACS - The Vegas Coin Show / Palace Station Hotel & Casino / Las Vegas, NV / November 20 - 22, 2020 (Schwager3ed# ANACS-025-3-17)
3 types / likely 20 or more of each known for Northern Marianas Islands (American Memorial Park): PCGS - HKINF June 2019 (S3# tbd) ANACS - ANA Summer Seminar / Young Numismatist Program / Colorado Springs, CO / June 2019 (S3# ANACS-025-3-20) ANACS - CHICAGO ANA / STEPHENS CONVENTION CENTER / ROSEMONT, IL / AUGUST 13 - 17, 2019 (S3# ANACS-025-3-15)
1 type for Guam (War in the Pacific National Park): PCGS - 2019P, D, S - Treasure Trivia (Long Beach) [note these are very rarely seen for sale] (S3# PCGS-025-9-19)
2 types for DC: ICG - 2013 Winter F.U.N. Show / Orlando, FL (S# ICG-025-1-62) PCGS - HKINF December 2018 (S3# tbd)
-----Burton ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
A whole bunch of those vinyl wallet holders have hit fleaBay in the last couple of months. Different colors, different gold foil stamping, different inserts, but the same basic concept. Coin in a flip with papers that presumably show it's valuable.
I haven't looked at all of them, but I don't recall seeing anything that gives us a date when they were made up.
-----Burton ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
It’s random. So far I have identified 1900, 1921-Morgan’s and 1922-23 peace dollars. Those are confirmed. There may be more. I’m not an expert in either series but what I’ve seen. The coins are ok.
There’s nothing on the packaging that indicates when they were put together. I have called and texted. They give out zero information about the history.
There was a few toned Morgan’s. They came in rainbow packaging. The Carson City , same type of packaging. The CC went for hundreds. The toners went double or triple of the others.
Set up at the Tukwila coin show this weekend, educating collectors and dealers about "Rare plastic". Having a good time!
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
Well dang @Lakesammman - I used to go to that show when I was working in the PNNW. Heck, I used to arrange my travel schedule just so I would happen to have my stay-over weekend that weekend (the BECC show too). Sorry to have missed you!
-----Burton ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
I know this is silly, but I can't help but buy RADAR serial number slabs, if cheap.
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
@Lakesammman said:
I know this is silly, but I can't help but buy RADAR serial number slabs, if cheap.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of OCD. I'm a charter member. I spent my morning coffee shop visit extolling the virtues of binary's, trinary's, radar's, repeater's and ladder's on US currency to an unimpressed group of family members. Luckily, they were under the influence of caffeine and stayed away for my entire diatribe.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of OCD. I'm a charter member. I spent my morning coffee shop visit extolling the virtues of binary's, trinary's, radar's, repeater's and ladder's on US currency to an unimpressed group of family members. Luckily, they were under the influence of caffeine and stayed away for my entire diatribe.
CDO - the letters are properly alphabetized.
-----Burton ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Nic - is that still something you have?? If so, Nice!!
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
@pointfivezero said:
Does a body bag count as plastic? Just picked this up on ebay. A first for me:
Hahaha…..I was just checking that out about an hour ago on eBay.
Nice grab!
Thanks! I got a nice note from the seller stating his dad picked this up in the body bag at a coin show in 1989 and it has been in his collection since then. Apparently, I was the first of three offers he received.
Should have just hit the BIN on that PVC Doily - congrats!
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
THE database. The one that will become the 3rd edition of The Sample Slab book.
With David's knowledge and permission, I've sucked everything out of the 2nd edition pdf and put it into a database.
I've written code to generate the book and the cover for a POD solution. I've started loading new discoveries from my personal collection and fleaBay auctions.
I'm about (next few weeks) to go live with a call for submissions, and a .xlsx (Excel file) you can use for it. If Microsoft isn't your particular evil empire, you should be able to open it in Google Sheets, but I haven't tested it.
There is still work to do on the coding for indexes and image sizing is still broken... Oh did I mention EIGHT indexes?
COMPANIES/TYPES INDEX (includes sponsors)
SCHWAGER NUMBER INDEX
OBJECT INDEX
SERIAL (Certificate) INDEX
SHOWS, OTHER EVENTS, and CLUBS INDEX
SampleSlabs.com (Cameron Kiefer) Cross reference
"The Slab Book" Cross-Reference
OTHER INDEX - indexable things that don't fall in the above
At some point, I'll be looking for proofreaders.
That I will ADMIT, I've put 500-1,000 hours into this over the last six months, although the foundation of the database system goes back several years, when I ran into some problems that I couldn't crack so I set it aside. I've written just over 8,000 lines of code.
Worked on a previous passion project for about six months that I abandoned because nobody else gave a ****. This one will go the distance.
The database now has 845 objects, vs. David's 2nd edition of 760. And I've not yet begun to enter all of my new stuff, let alone other people's.
-----Burton ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
BStrauss3 - Feel free to borrow any pics from my sample threads.
That Accugrade is cool - I like the pic better than the coin!
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
A recent pick up that is not particularly rare, but these holders are getting increasingly harder to find. I have to admit, I bought the holder for this one. The slab looks as if it was made yesterday. Not a scratch on it.
Cool stuff - quite a few ways to collect that I never thought of.
BStrauss3 - finally digested your post - never thought of collecting samples by state or parks.
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
Here's one I picked up about 4 years ago - INS - 2 full sheets of description, a laminated certificate and the coin in a flip - would be a cumbersome way to grade and collect! Note all the punches on the reverse with the letter "I".
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
@pointfivezero FWIW, NES also did the TV grading bit using the friction fit slabs with the bottom fins.
@Lakesammman I didn't make a big fuss until I got close to the end. David scouted a few for me. I thought I had the solution when I found out about a previously unknown 62 slab, 31 state NGC sample (2x per state for the first 31 50SQ), but the ones I needed didn't come up for sale. I still need a few of the never-seen states, but the USVI on the Ft Myers club holiday party was a huge win.
-----Burton ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Good week - was able to add 3 pieces to my plastic collection this week, to include these 2. Have had a hard time finding the cancelled show 2020 sample - was happy to see it appear on ebay.
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
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Looks like the first '69-D has no 'L00' under the date.....or, is it the lack of decimal point in grade on same coin??
very cool, and unusual
BHNC #203
I love that dime and holder!
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Not particularly rare but a lovely coin and holder I got last week:
My YouTube Channel
Walkerfan
I am not a big slab seeker but those are two beautiful undergraded coins.
"Look up, old boy, and see what you get." -William Bonney.
Agree - really like a LOT of the coins being posted, but it has to be in the right plastic ......
I was doing a quick inventory of my non-NGC/PCGS slabs tonight. In my world, there is no wrong plastic:
@breakdown Thanks! 😊
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
I have standards. They're low, but I do have standards - it has to be sealed.
I can live with GCC where they glued the sheets of acrylic together and then smoothed the edges with a belt sander.
I draw the line at like INB, where when you buy a dozen coins, you get a box of parts and have to put them together yourself.
ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Dug these out thought I would share
I think my favorite is the redfield dollar in the Blanchard holder.
Tom
Nice Regency set, Tom. Wish I could have found the complete package when I bought mine. Thanks for sharing!
Tim
Well, it's not the weekend and I couldn't find a "Rare Mylar for the Weekend" thread so I'm posting this eBay purchase here. A first for me, a Blanchard sealed flip. Anyone seen one of these before?
Tim
Is it Friday yet? Just received this in the mail. Sometime in the last 31 years, someone broke into the holder and replaced the photographed Morgan with a much less interesting version of a '78-S:
Does that Blanchard flip have a Cointain holding the coin?? Looks well preserved.
The holder has not been delivered but the description said the flip was "sealed". I'll take some better pictures when it arrives.
Tim
Wow, a dream set. You should close the thread after that post. Where can we go from here?
What's special? (Especially, with the last post being so over the top?)
To David and my knowledge, this is the first USVI 50SQ/ATB sample discovered.
There are several stoppers in trying to build a 56-coin sample set, with the Territories being among the toughest... from hardest to relative easiest (my estimation):
1 Type/Unique for Puerto Rico:
ANACS - 5oz Silver El Yunque (Schwager# ANACS-Ag5-3-1)1 Type / only 1 sale recorded for American Samoa (National Park of American Samoa, Fruit Bat):
ANACS - The Vegas Coin Show / Palace Station Hotel & Casino / Las Vegas, NV / November 20 - 22, 2020 (Schwager3ed# ANACS-025-3-17)3 types / likely 20 or more of each known for Northern Marianas Islands (American Memorial Park):
PCGS - HKINF June 2019 (S3# tbd)ANACS - ANA Summer Seminar / Young Numismatist Program / Colorado Springs, CO / June 2019 (S3# ANACS-025-3-20)ANACS - CHICAGO ANA / STEPHENS CONVENTION CENTER / ROSEMONT, IL / AUGUST 13 - 17, 2019 (S3# ANACS-025-3-15)1 type for Guam (War in the Pacific National Park):
PCGS - 2019P, D, S - Treasure Trivia (Long Beach) [note these are very rarely seen for sale] (S3# PCGS-025-9-19)2 types for DC:
ICG - 2013 Winter F.U.N. Show / Orlando, FL (S# ICG-025-1-62)PCGS - HKINF December 2018 (S3# tbd)ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Here’s an unusual one 🤠Homemade
!
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
A whole bunch of those vinyl wallet holders have hit fleaBay in the last couple of months. Different colors, different gold foil stamping, different inserts, but the same basic concept. Coin in a flip with papers that presumably show it's valuable.
I haven't looked at all of them, but I don't recall seeing anything that gives us a date when they were made up.
ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
It’s random. So far I have identified 1900, 1921-Morgan’s and 1922-23 peace dollars. Those are confirmed. There may be more. I’m not an expert in either series but what I’ve seen. The coins are ok.
There’s nothing on the packaging that indicates when they were put together. I have called and texted. They give out zero information about the history.
There was a few toned Morgan’s. They came in rainbow packaging. The Carson City , same type of packaging. The CC went for hundreds. The toners went double or triple of the others.
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
Wow. They wanted this one ☝️
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
Set up at the Tukwila coin show this weekend, educating collectors and dealers about "Rare plastic". Having a good time!
Well dang @Lakesammman - I used to go to that show when I was working in the PNNW. Heck, I used to arrange my travel schedule just so I would happen to have my stay-over weekend that weekend (the BECC show too). Sorry to have missed you!
ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Assigned S3e#PCGS-Medal-3-3 in the database.
ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
The fabled INS MS65 Proof-like short set...
--Severian the Lame
I know this is silly, but I can't help but buy RADAR serial number slabs, if cheap.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of OCD. I'm a charter member. I spent my morning coffee shop visit extolling the virtues of binary's, trinary's, radar's, repeater's and ladder's on US currency to an unimpressed group of family members. Luckily, they were under the influence of caffeine and stayed away for my entire diatribe.
Tim
Going through some stuff. This should qualify.
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
CDO - the letters are properly alphabetized.
ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Does a body bag count as plastic? Just picked this up on ebay. A first for me:
Nic - is that still something you have?? If so, Nice!!
Hahaha…..I was just checking that out about an hour ago on eBay.
Nice grab!
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
Thanks! I got a nice note from the seller stating his dad picked this up in the body bag at a coin show in 1989 and it has been in his collection since then. Apparently, I was the first of three offers he received.
Tim
Yes, still have it @Lakesammman . Thanks.
Weren't you a Market Maker for this issue at one time ...
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
Nic - not really, but I have owned a few.
Should have just hit the BIN on that PVC Doily - congrats!
What database are you referring to?
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/set/172592
THE database. The one that will become the 3rd edition of The Sample Slab book.
With David's knowledge and permission, I've sucked everything out of the 2nd edition pdf and put it into a database.
I've written code to generate the book and the cover for a POD solution. I've started loading new discoveries from my personal collection and fleaBay auctions.
I'm about (next few weeks) to go live with a call for submissions, and a .xlsx (Excel file) you can use for it. If Microsoft isn't your particular evil empire, you should be able to open it in Google Sheets, but I haven't tested it.
There is still work to do on the coding for indexes and image sizing is still broken... Oh did I mention EIGHT indexes?
COMPANIES/TYPES INDEX (includes sponsors)
SCHWAGER NUMBER INDEX
OBJECT INDEX
SERIAL (Certificate) INDEX
SHOWS, OTHER EVENTS, and CLUBS INDEX
SampleSlabs.com (Cameron Kiefer) Cross reference
"The Slab Book" Cross-Reference
OTHER INDEX - indexable things that don't fall in the above
At some point, I'll be looking for proofreaders.
That I will ADMIT, I've put 500-1,000 hours into this over the last six months, although the foundation of the database system goes back several years, when I ran into some problems that I couldn't crack so I set it aside. I've written just over 8,000 lines of code.
Worked on a previous passion project for about six months that I abandoned because nobody else gave a ****. This one will go the distance.
The database now has 845 objects, vs. David's 2nd edition of 760. And I've not yet begun to enter all of my new stuff, let alone other people's.
ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
this early accugrade is interesting in a strange way
BStrauss3 - Feel free to borrow any pics from my sample threads.
That Accugrade is cool - I like the pic better than the coin!
A recent pick up that is not particularly rare, but these holders are getting increasingly harder to find. I have to admit, I bought the holder for this one. The slab looks as if it was made yesterday. Not a scratch on it.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
Something new... we've seen the 5c unc and proof greyback Blanchard, but until now, only the 1c in the goldfoil label...
ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Not sure these qualify as “rare plastic” but since there is no thread for “overpriced plastic for the weekend”, I’ll post a few recent pick-ups here:
Tim
Here is a super rarity from my prooflike Morgan set, which I sold off over the years except for a few pieces. (Never got a 93-S nor an 00-O/CC.)
Cool stuff - quite a few ways to collect that I never thought of.
BStrauss3 - finally digested your post - never thought of collecting samples by state or parks.
Here's one I picked up about 4 years ago - INS - 2 full sheets of description, a laminated certificate and the coin in a flip - would be a cumbersome way to grade and collect! Note all the punches on the reverse with the letter "I".
@pointfivezero FWIW, NES also did the TV grading bit using the friction fit slabs with the bottom fins.
@Lakesammman I didn't make a big fuss until I got close to the end. David scouted a few for me. I thought I had the solution when I found out about a previously unknown 62 slab, 31 state NGC sample (2x per state for the first 31 50SQ), but the ones I needed didn't come up for sale. I still need a few of the never-seen states, but the USVI on the Ft Myers club holiday party was a huge win.
ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Good to know, @BStrauss3. I'll keep my eyes open.
Tim
Good week - was able to add 3 pieces to my plastic collection this week, to include these 2. Have had a hard time finding the cancelled show 2020 sample - was happy to see it appear on ebay.