So now they are slabbing silver dollar mint bag pieces 🧐
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I never heard of such a thing. This showed up in my Facebook feed today 🧐
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I didn't think it was legit, I guess it is. Totally ridicules!
Although slabbing a cut piece of a mint bag seems silly, there are some extremely collectible rare mint bags out there that would benefit from slabbing/certification of the entire bag. I like the idea
It's game used!
Extremely rare collectible after it's cut up in small pieces??
They are following the success the sports card industry had with slicing up game-worn jerseys, game-used bats, etc. How soon until a slab label affixed with an "authentic blob of strike thru grease"?
I’ll wait for slabbed slabs. Authentic first gen slab folks! Great way to monetize crack outs completely.
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Perhaps they could start cutting up some of the ultra rarities in a similar manner. I’d love to own one of the stars from an 1804 dollar, or maybe Liberty’s foot from the 1933 St. Gaudens.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I'd like the star from an 1804 dollar with the initial "D" in it.
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That microscopic D from the Dexter specimen of the 1804 silver dollar will add a big premium.
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The Guttenberg bible has been disassembled with each individual page being sold.
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Somehow I'm reminded of the "authentic strands of Lincoln's hair" that are about 1/8th inch long and regularly seen all over the internet...
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So, what's next? Will they slab an authentic grading room cricket?
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It's ok as long as they don't come up with a grading scale for the bag pieces too!
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Please explain to dummies like me, what is the significance of that bag?
I am guessing that the bag is from the "Great Southern Treasury Hoard".
And, here is a video.
Note - I am NOT saying that I fully understand the collectibility aspect, just that they appear to be related.
Reminds me of the attempt to merchandise hotel bedsheet squares from beds the Beatles slept in way back when. There are limits to marketability related to the interested size of the collector class.
There are at least a few people here who’d buy sheets that JA slept on.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I thought that was basically CAC...
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No, leave the entire bag intact and preserve/encapsulate it. IIRC saw a couple Carson city bags and a $20 gold bag at a show last year. Guy wanted a small fortune for them, but they were cool.
Cut up and slab pieces from the tin cans those gold coins were found in buried in the ground.
I don't mean to be difficult but encapsulate an entire bag?? In a really big PCGS slab? 😁
NGC already authenticates documents in large slabs, I see no reason they couldn’t do a mint bag. Some of the older bags are smaller size than the more recent ones, so it should be easy to do.
I want to see a “full mint bag” with silver dollars in it inside a slab 🤔😉
Mr_Spud
I was thinking of slabbing my high school report cards, but they've already been graded.
My Adolph A. Weinman signature
I'd love to get a few things slabbed, but that's another story not to be told here
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The easy explanation is PT Barnum's
One born every minute rolled in with IF you build it they will come... maybe a few more.
Next up some Oak Island wood water and dirt.
The slab itself looks as ragged as the piece of bag.
A groaner but a very good one.
And the dirt around it.
Too many bag marks for my taste.
The label is a little ambiguous. Is it a “Federal Reserve Bank” bag or a “Mint” bag?
An odd collectible, IMO, but I am sure there is some interest out there as a relic.
Today with the huge range of marketing access via the Internet something like that might sell well!
K
CAG will slab or authenticate just about anything collectible. That is essentially their entire business model.
Bunch of collectible snobs. LOL.
I've got a couple of pieces of the Berlin Wall here. They were sold as collectibles after the Fall.
I've got a piece of the skin of Lindbergh's plane here. Those planes had paper (cardboard) skins that needed occasional replacement. So they cut it up and sold the pieces as collectibles.
The Franklin Mint sold those silver "space flown coins". They took a couple of ounces of silver that had been carried into space by an astronaut and melted it into 1000 ounces of terrestrial silver to make little moon coins.
There were the Constellation medals where, again, some metal from the constellation was melted into a giant pot and then turned into medals.
And, of course, don't forget the irradiated dimes from the 1940s that were sold as souvenirs. Good luck finding any evidence of exposure.
I see no reason why someone couldn't collect a cut square from a "famous" historical item as an affordable little piece of history.
A piece of a mint bag is not a famous historical item. I wasn't aware of this hoard and I'm a numismatist. I'll bet very few non-numismatists have every heard of this hoard.
I am aware of the collectibles from the Berlin Wall, Lindbergh's plane, space flown collectibles and Constitution medals. So are many other potential collectors of these.
Because YOU never heard of it, it's not a historical item. That's why I called you collectible snobs. LOL. [Lovingly, of course.]
If no one wants one, then no one will buy one. If people want them, they will buy them and the marketer will reap his just profits.
You're a paper money guy. How many obsoletes are "famous historical items" known to the general population? That really isn't the standard for anything. I imagine the bag squares are being marketed solely to coin collectors.
They are really a pretty affordable little collectible. They aren't asking a ton of money for them.
Big chunk of Lucite will hold it.
Actually, the toy people have been slabbing large toys for years. Although I don't know if any of them are as heavy as a full mint bag.
I once found a canvas coin bag partially buried by blow sand in the desert. I couldn't quite read the printing on it as it was well worn and sun dried. Looking inside it held a few small gold nuggets/specimens in the bottom of the well worn bag.
I lost track of the bag but have a Wells Fargo bank a mile away from my house...did I lose track something important?
Just shows you how stupid some people can be!
While a piece of a canvas bag doesn't interest me in the slightest, I don't have a problem with anyone that wants to own something like this as a piece of history (important or not). However, I always get a chuckle out of coin collectors that look down on other collectors. Most people who don't collect coins (my wife included) think we are crazy for spending large sums of money on small, round, metal disks.
I say collect what you like.
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I'd like to buy a letter, Pat.
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Well, if that's your bag ? (speaking from the right coast)
Still waiting for a reply from the left coast slang experts, as it could be an issue in a sack of many.
What ?
If it's not too expensive, I could see a slab collector buying one because it's so unusual and just plain weird.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Shoot, every church in Europe has a piece of some saint’s skeleton.
I have a couple relics at my house. They are really quite odd when you stop to think about it.