The "Why'd they slab 'em?" thread

lordmarcovan

Who has pictures of funny slabs? I just found these, posted by an acquaintance on the eBay board.

(Edit 9/22: aww, darn. He deleted the image. As I recall, it was a bunch of midgrade circulated common Jeffersons, including one from the 1980's, and a wretched 3c nickel.)

I once owned an ANACS G4 Seated dime that was worth maybe six or seven bucks, tops.
The funniest I can recall seeing was a 1956-D Lincoln cent on Teletrade, in an ANACS slab: "EF details", net graded to VF for corrosion! Sometimes it's obvious that folks were shooting for a particular variety attribution and didn't get it. But other time's it's rather baffling. I've thought about slabbing my VG 1936 Mercury dime, as it is a very important coin. (My first collector coin, found in 1976!) But why waste money? A sentimental coin should be touched and held in the hand, anyway.

MICHAELDIXON

I bought a complete set of circulated mercury dimes slabbed by ICG. The keys were Fair & AG and the rest were G-VF. Why would anybody slab a set like that?

IrishMike

That 1866 looks real familiar.

flaminio

Some of these are almost certainly just people being goofy. Like, hey I got a nickel in my pocket, why not slab it? Sometimes there are deals that are "minimum 5 coins" and you've only got four you need slabbed -- so you stick whatever you got into the box. Some people use slabs as expensive 2x2s -- the ICG Mercury set would be an example of that.

And then there's braddick's collection...

-Bob

dddangerousdan

You could use them as a grading set. I am trying to put together one for Lincolns. Try to find the circulated grades that are not expensive keys. It aint easy. If I get enough coins together to send in the 1955 freebe will be a VF.

DAN

coynclecter

<< <i>Some of these are almost certainly just people being goofy. Like, hey I got a nickel in my pocket, why not slab it? >>



I would agree that would be rather goofy if it's a nickel. Oddly though if it's a new quarter it's acceptable.

lordmarcovan

Good point. I knew about Braddick, but had forgotten to consider grading sets and suchlike. (But surely those aren't often broken up and sold, right?)

OK, c'mon- I know y'all can find some funny ones out there... I wanna see something top that corroded 1956-D cent, for sheer strangeness...

dddangerousdan

PS if anyone knows about cheap low grade pcgs Lincolns I would be interested

DAN

oldcameoproofsguy

If I owned those coins I'd try to cross them over to a more respected grading service!!!!!

I could own the "anti-pop 1" that would read like:
1985-P PCGS EF-40 $.05 1(3467).

The Barber Quarters I curate

IrishMike

If I am not wrong I used to own the three cent, I have a sister to it that is just as bad, if it's the same coin I sent it to the current owner as a throw in to a deal. They were purchased as a joke and already slabbed, but it is kinda neat to own a coin that old in a slab. I would post a picture of the other one but my nikon died and is on it's way back for repair.

lordmarcovan

Maybe a lot of this stuff gets slabbed as a joke, too.

That, or the folks at ANACS get REALLY bored, and bring stuff into the office just to play with.

morganbarber

I think that many coins which should not be slabbed are done for a mixture of two reasons. First the owner is a novice who cannot grade. Secondly one always grades a coin he owns higher than one owned by someone else. Thus an arrogant newbie can send a common date Merc in VF-EF expecting to get aq registry piece.

Drizzt

I had about 10 Morgans that I got from my grandfather.
I decided to get them slabbed and possibly hand them
out at a family reunion.But they came back G-4,G-6,VG-8
VG-10,F-12,AU-50. Decided to keep them for a grading set.

mrpaseo

Drixxt, I am thinking about doing the same thing with a Lincoln set....I think I'm going to add that to my slab veriation set...

Thanks for the idea/reminder.

Ray

Conder101

Here is the ANACS 8 from the slab book. If it attaches properly.

gmarguli

I sent in a bunch of common date circ Morgan and Peace dollars when I needed more coins to meet the minimum number for a special PCGS was running. Those coins sold really well.

lordmarcovan

Conder- that's wonderful! Takes the prize, so far!