CONDER101: FCS 2 slab - my thoughts

kieferscoins

Hi Conder101,

I noticed on the FCS slabs in the book, the second slab (FCS 2) has the name removed and the date in "European style." I saw several of them at a recent show and bought one (before the book came out) and have an opinion on their dating.

I don't think they meant to date the slab in the european style pictured in the book, and in fact it may be a mechanical error in their typing. I think they put 22 instead of 12 (the month). The slab I have, is identical, but with the normal dating (10/13/89):

https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/oldattachments/FCS1%2EJPG

The other slab I have a photo of is on ebay right now and has a normal date also (5/29/89):



All three of the others ones I saw at a show have the nromal date also. Anyone else have one so that we can check?

Cameron Kiefer

airplanenut

Cameron,

You're good! Instead of 'Good Guy,' maybe you should be Little Conder (or bigger, as the case may be )

kieferscoins

I don't want to be little conder. I like being the Good Guy.

Cameron Kiefer

Dog97

What are you doing with 020 in your sig? Last I knew that was a jmore coin.

airplanenut

<< <i>I don't want to be little conder. I like being the Good Guy.

Cameron Kiefer >>

Ok, you can stay Good Guy... but how about making me Good Guy #2?

kieferscoins

It's mine now. I got it from a board member.

Cameron Kiefer

Dog97

We had a thread somewhere around here where we were accounting for all the 199999 submissions. You know there are examples of 2 different coins with the same #s from that submission?

kieferscoins

I didn't know that. What number was it and are the coins with different owners?

Cameron Kiefer

Dog97

I think it was 3 different coins with 009 and several with 012.

lordmarcovan

Cameron, you might wanna link to that bloody huge pic in the top post, rather than have it posted that way. Otherwise, Conder is gonna have to scroll waaaaaaaay across his screen to read your text, unless he has a monitor the size of a big-screen TV...

kieferscoins

Sorry about that. It is now linked. TTT for conder101.

Cameron Kiefer

Conder101

Since the book came out I have seen a couple of these with the US dating style as well. It may be a typo but it must have happened several times. When I first saw this variety the dealer had four examples. Three had the European dating style and the date on the fourth was such that it was indeterminate. So my hypothsis that they company might have been purchased by a non-US firm is shaky and probably wrong (since more US dated pieces are showing up than European ones). So we have possibly a typo, or it may relate to who typed up the label (Their nationality). I thought maybe it might depend on whose initials are on the slab, but both the example in the book and the piece you posted are graded by the same person.

kieferscoins

Thanks. I got more for you on other slabs, but have to scan them in the next day or so.

Cameron Kiefer