price for sample slabs

TROUT70

how do you determin a price for pcgs sample slabs ? i have 2 wheat cent pcgs sample slabs . thank you

Baley

search recent ebay auctions for end prices for similar material.

JrGMan2004

Send Cameron (kieferscoins) or conder101 a PM with a full description of the Sample Slab, they can give you an accurate retail pricing for it

Merc

You can't determine a set price since few collect sample slabs. Get as much as you can! For me, they are just plastic and I won't pay extra for a coin just because of an unusual holder.

MrEureka

how do you determin a price for pcgs sample slabs ? i have 2 wheat cent pcgs sample slabs . thank you

I've been selling mine below face and consider myself fortunate.

byergo

No offense, but for the life of me I can't understand why anyone would pay a premium (heck even a buck) for a sample slab? Aren't we numismatists and coin collectors/dealers, not plastic with paper insert collectors?

At the same time I don't understand why people collect beanie babies, pogs, cabbage patch kids, gold plated state quarters, etc...

caitlin

I have a few and just send me PM and their yours.

kieferscoins

<< <i>No offense, but for the life of me I can't understand why anyone would pay a premium (heck even a buck) for a sample slab? >>



Sell me as many as you have for $2 each. Some are really scarce and collectors of samples know that and are willing to pay over $100 for a few types.



<< <i>You can't determine a set price since few collect sample slabs. Get as much as you can! >>



All you need is one or two sales and the prices start to appear just like all other coins. I can get a good feeling what something will sell for in samples and adjust my buying price accordingly. I might buy a sample for $5 and sell for $7. Not a killer profit but enough to make it worthwhile.


Is this like yours?:

PCGS 10 from my website:





<< <i>This slab was once thought to be scarce. It might still be semi scarce if no one saved them, but recently I found out from David Hall who told me “These were an item in a Random House marketed Scott Travers "Coin collecting starter kit. "I believed we did either 50,000 or 100,000 of them.” If this is the true production numbers, this is the largest number of samples made for any time from any of the services! Most samples don’t even have 1,000 made of one type.

The Back of the slab is Green and white and does not have the hologram. The dates I have seen range from 1918 through 1929 and each coin is in Fine through Extremely Fine condition. Group lots of 4-8 of these samples can easily be found. This type could still be a challenge for a “short set” of sample slabs by trying to get one of each date. >>



These sell for $5-10 each depending upon the condition of the coin and the slab.

Cameron Kiefer

Baley

depending upon the condition of the coin and th slab. (sic)

yes, the condition of the slab is important, and slabs are graded on a 70 point scale, from mint-70 down to poor-1, just like coins.

someday, rare slabs will themselves be encased in authentication/grading slabs, to protect their delicate surfaces and to protect slab collectors from "doctored" slabs (scratches polished off, tampered with slabs, outright counterfeits of rare types)

then, someday, people will collect those slabs.

one can envision a day when one collects half a dozen layers of plastic, like one of those Russian dolls, which may or may not have a coin inside.

kieferscoins

"yes, the condition of the slab is important, and slabs are graded on a 70 point scale, from mint-70 down to poor-1, just like coins."

I know you are joking, but people who read this forum like Trout might not know. He is trying to find info and slab collecting bashing isn't going to help any.

Cameron Kiefer

chuckfarthing

Baley you are a hoot!

SarasotaFrank

<< <i>slab collecting bashing isn't going to help any.

Cameron Kiefer >>



au contraire, it may save him God only knows how much money and effort but enabling him to pay attention to the coins, as opposed to the plastic.

mrearlygold

yes, the condition of the slab is important, and slabs are graded on a 70 point scale, from mint-70 down to poor-1, just like coins.

someday, rare slabs will themselves be encased in authentication/grading slabs, to protect their delicate surfaces and to protect slab collectors from "doctored" slabs (scratches polished off, tampered with slabs, outright counterfeits of rare types)

Hey I have a slab that had a scratch that was removed. Do you think ANACS will net grade the slab?

Rgrds
TP

jonesy

<< <i>I've been selling mine below face and consider myself fortunate. >>


DAMMIT BOY!!!

millennium

<< <i>At the same time I don't understand why people collect beanie babies, pogs, cabbage patch kids, gold plated state quarters, etc... >>




Amen to that...Is there a forum for junk collectors?...

kieferscoins

Sample slabs aren't junk.

Cameron Kiefer

MrEureka

Sell me as many as you have for $2 each. Some are really scarce and collectors of samples know that and are willing to pay over $100 for a few types

Cameron - Nice spread! Now you're getting the hang of it! Soon, we'll have you buying COINS!

braddick

Heaven forbid anyone should collect what they want- what they enjoy.
No. Someone better get TROUT70 collecting MS65 1881-S Morgan dollars and STAT, before it's too late.

ksteelheader

Sample slabs aren't junk.....No, they're not. You can actually get some people to buy junk. Can't say the same for ss's......

Baley

I didn't mean to make fun, but point out that sample slabs are legitimate collectors' items, on the order of old RedBooks, old auction catalogs, old B Max Mehl memorabelia, old Issue cards for commems, etc.

condition IS important.

the rest was a bit of a jest, I admit, although it is an interesting image, no?

MrEureka

I didn't mean to make fun, but point out that sample slabs are legitimate collectors' items

Baley - Are you daft?

kieferscoins

It is interesting baaly, but I think a 5 point grading for a slab itself is enough.

Cameron Kiefer

braddick

<< <i>I didn't mean to make fun, but point out that sample slabs are legitimate collectors' items

Baley - Are you daft? >>

Come on, Andy. Think outside the slab...

MadMarty

I hear Cammy is trying to get his sample slabs graded and put into larger slabs! THat way he can collect a sample slab of a sample slab slab!

oreville

Hey guys, collecting sample slabs are fun. They are just another form of collecting coins.

Quite frankly, I put them on the same level as collecting obw memorial cents rolls (or other denomination rolls). A fun and inexpensive way to collect paper wrappings of the various old banks in the USA.

I was there collecting sample slabs back in the 1990's long before anyone ever thought of them as sample slabs. They were curiousities then.

Now collecting old black NGC slabs is the real thing. Big time!

That is certainly all about the plastic. Let the flame wars begin but I suspect that those black NGC slabs will outperform nearly every coin in the coin market in the next 20 years.

Wingsrule

Trout70,

Collect what you want, but I blame Cameron for my recent interest in sample slabs.

Cameron,

Samples Rock!