New Morgan Dollar Sample Slab Pickup
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Here's a new addition to my sample slab collection I got earlier today. It's listed as NGC 4.2 on sampleslabs.com (Cameron Keifer's original site) with only the discovery example known at that time (October of 2004, also an 1887), along with 4-5 graded MS60. Also interesting is that while not a rare VAM, it is a VAM-12A Alligator Eye.
Sorry for the cell phone photos- my house is being remodeled and my camera rig is in storage 
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Nice one!
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Very cool. 👍
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Wow, didn’t know grading companies sample slab Morgan’s. That’s cool 👍
Send it to cac. A sample slab with a gold sticker would be distinctive
I doubt if very many of those were made. A sample slab with a Morgan Dollar is an unusual item.
A friend of mine suggested this also. Does CAC still sticker PCGS/NGC slabs, or do they only grade/slab now?
They still sticker but if you aren’t a current member you’ll have to go through a dealer.
Very cool item, nice!
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FYI, That coin is a Top 100 VAM.
I recall reading that they stopped accepting sample slabs for stickering (plenty of golds used to come from the NGC MS 60 sample Peace Dollars).
Hopefully someone can confirm or refute this recollection as I can't seem to find the post/info.
That is a neat sample slab, very different from the usual dimes or quarters.
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Nice, I like 👍
Cool with a capital C.
Christian: Nice. CAC is still running the stickering operation out of NJ. The slabbing is in Virginia Beach. There are a few samples I've seen with Gold stickers. The samples with the MS60 (placeholder) grade are definitely undergraded. Not sure if they will sticker samples anymore.
NGC made these, but because they used the 199999- cert# for many different samples, it's impossible to determine the population. My best guess is these were dealer samples and not necessarily preserved.
NGC-100-3-1 is the green/gray label MS 60 NGC variety, known in 1883-O, 1884-O, 1885-O, 1887, 1888-O, 1900, with without OakTree stickers
NGC-100-3-2 is the grey/brown label MS 63 variety, known in 1886, 1887
NGC-100-3-4 is -2 with "NGC" after the grade like -1 1885-O, 1887
According to the database, 199999- possibly an edition of "SAMPLE" graded 20 pieces, but only -001 1923, -011 1881 Morgan, and -020 1922 are found).
199999- was used for Roosevelt dimes and some foreign coins too.
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Pretty coin in a really neat holder! Thanks for posting this...
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Your cell phone pics kill mine and that is a fine example
Very nice sample slab and coin!