Two old slabs.

Placid

robertpr

I sure hope this doesn't mean Coin Vault from Shop at Home is slabbing their own coins now!

Placid

No but about as good. It's the rare 1836 bay bridge
They also marked a sba as a franklin half and I only sent 10 coins in.
Here is the back.

Conder101

The Coin Vault slabs are an interesting company/ This was a true SLABBING service. They neither graded nor authenticated your coins. Al they did was provide protective slabs to house your coins. They saw this as their market niche during a time when there were several grading services about but almost all of those services were using photocertificates. They would slab your coin for protection and place on the slab the grade and certificate/serial numbers from the grading service and which service it was. They would also merely encapsulate for protection coins that had not been sent to a certification service. That is the case with the Bay Bridge half seen here.

The INGS slabs come from the late 80's early 90's period and are a different company than Coin Vault although both got their slab shells from the same source, Hagar at ACG. One interesting thing about the INGS slab, replace the photo on the back with info about coin and change the company name on the front and you have Global Certification Service. Same slabs, same color scheme (including gold ink for the company name), same layout, even the same logo a globe cradled within two hands. I am not sure if there really is a link between the two companies but I do suspect there is.