Self Grading Taken To New Heights!

SarasotaFrank

this struck me as, not quite sure how it struck, me, but it sure did.

MS70 $10 Platinum - Graded

So Confident of Grade - I Slabbed It Myself!

with all due respect to our friends at PGS , whose grading I would take to the bank, I am thinking this one is juuuuuust a bit self serving.

Mikey

I wonder what the barcode says.

littlewicher

It looks like that person took up ACG's business opportunity to create their own slabbing service.

ARCO

nifty!! You can buy with the utmost confidence as you know there couldn't possibly be any self interest involved!!

Just think of the upside! No slabbing fees, no postage and ins. cost shipping coins to and fro. Much shorter wait, never a bodybag and you are guarenteed the grade you think the coin deserves. Seems like a good business Idea to me, be the provider of plastic slabs and a cheap machine to press them together with some colorful tags and barcode thingy majiggy to make it look real nice. We could all just slab our own coins and sell them fully certified and holdered for everyone's protection. LOL

Tyler

asnooker

Duh.....why didn't I think of that? LOL

maddox

ACG is in for some serious trouble, they have competition

braddick

<< <i>I wonder what the barcode says. >>


"A fool and his money are soon parted"

ms71

It's nothing more than the old 2x2 with the dealer's grade written on it. The intent, though, is obvious...............

There will always be this element in the hobby; the knowledgable will pay it no attention and those who haven't invested the time and effort to learn will be victims. The shame is that it will ruin the hobby for some number who are burned and they won't be back.

CLASSICS

just another ebay snake oil salesman

gmarguli

I believe this is the "service" ACG offers. You send them X number of coins with your grade. ACG slabs them with your grade and "company name".

The photo here is so lightened that I can't tell if this slab still has the ACG initials. There were several like this that did.

Conder101

Yes that is one of the ACG "Private label" encapsulation service slabs. In fact it was the first one that came to my attention and has been discussed here before. This is one of his early ones. His slabs come in two varieties. The earley ones have the serial number at the top of the label and all of the printing is in black ink. The later ones have the serial number at the bottom of the label and the SG is in red ink. So far I have seen one other company using this ACG services and I have had reported to me that there are at least 12 others but I don't have their names yet. One other feature about the S&G slabs is that he appears to be using, on the second variety, different color labels for the different mints.

After some consideration I may have the first and second varieties listed backwards as that is the order in which they came to my attention and under the assumption that the colored ink pieces would be later than the all black ink version. (As it was on the ACG slabs.) But I have seen more of the black ink variety than I have of the red ink ones. Also I own four of the red ink variety, all with the same serial number 100001! (The highest serial number I have seen on the black ink variety so far is 100213, the one in the auction SarasotaFrank referenced.

Bear

If the grocery stores can sell private label good, then I guess a perso can do the same.

But noone can force a collector to buy the darn thing. At least not above the MS-68 or 69 level.