New Record price for a Sample Slab!
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But I'll never give a sample slab away again!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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that's alot of dough for a sample.
Just think... somebody just paid you two dollars more for a generic UNC Statehood quarter than I paid you for an 1806 Draped Bust quarter a month or so ago. Interesting.
I am never going to sell the one you gave me. It is in my collection.
Cameron Kiefer
Sorry, you've lost all credibility, you dealer, you!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Hmmm... I wonder if that also cover the sale of Sample slabs?
Cameron, maybe giving up that "Mean & Evil" monikor was premature?
peacockcoins
Arrest me.
Cameron Kiefer (mean and evil)
Got quoins?
<< <i>Even if you paid for it Braddick? Arrest me.
Ahhh, it's only an infraction. I have your address- your citation is in the mail.
peacockcoins
Clankeye
<< <i>Even if you paid for it Braddick?
Arrest me.
Cameron Kiefer (mean and evil) >>
How could he? You're the cop
And mean and evil? A good guy?
Do you really have two of THAT particular slab? If so lets talk. I was the underbidder.
And technically I don't consider that to be a Sample slab. I'll be listing it as a Presentation slab. Sample slabs are normally given away free to whoever wants them and they are intended to be used for two purposes, to advertise the company, and to show off the latest slab design. A presentation slab is only given to someone who fulfills some sort of required action. They are never just given free for the asking. An example that many of us have is are the flag insert state quarters or USE's that PCGS gave/gives away to new members. They don't gust give them away. You must pay money ($99?) to join or renew your membership. In the case of the ICG slab that was auctioned you had to be enrolled in the Numismatics course. (Which probably wasn't free either.)
Sent pm Conder101.
Cameron Kiefer
<< <i>Sample slabs are normally given away free to whoever wants them and they are intended to be used for two purposes, to advertise the company, and to show off the latest slab design. A presentation slab is only given to someone who fulfills some sort of required action >>
I disagree. Here it why I think it is a sample:
1. They were given aeway to the class for free
2. Yes, they paid for the class, but the instructor said it was a supriise gift, not a part of the class that they paid for.
3. It advertises the company and shows the students (all non coin collectors) what a slab looks like.
4. What required action did the students do? Attend class that day?
Cameron Kiefer
Dis-illusioned,
Andy
First POTD 9/19/05!!
Cameron Kiefer
Well, maybe now I won't crack out my B&M/PCGS New Hampshire state quarter "sample" and spend it. Course there must be thousands of these out there......
<< <i>. What required action did the students do? Attend class that day? >>
They signed up and paid for the course. Yes the slabs were not a planned part of the course, but as you said in your announcement ebay listing they made up 50 pieces because that was the number of students that had signed up for the course. Clearly the intention was that these slabs were to have specific recipients, just those who had taken the "required action" of taking the class. One thing that would be interesting to know would be whether or not there were people absent that day and whether they had slabs left for them. Or if anyone tried to get a second piece. If so were they accomodated or were they rebuffed.
Cameron Kiefer