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The sample slab record price has been beaten again

kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
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Was $250 on April 2nd and just 26 days later is now @ $262.00! Congrats to the winner and he is a serious sample collector. This isn't any shill bidding or hype. My bids were weak compared to the others and I actually got busy and forgot about bidding on it till it was over. I would have stayed in up too $200 or more.

The auction

The slab (a previously unknown type):

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Cameron Kiefer

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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    coolness!!!

    despite my aversion to plastic as it applies to coin collecting, i applaud your enjoyment of collecting sample slabs!

    K S
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Okay, I gots to know. What is previously unknown about that slab?

    Location of the barcode? Font? etc?

    Curious minds want to know
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    There were no samples known with a Franklin half before until last week. The green PCGS slab label was from the mid 1990's and no one including conder101 or other slab guys knew about it.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    Cool! image
    -George
    42/92
  • STEWARTBLAYNUMISSTEWARTBLAYNUMIS Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭

    Are sample slab prices listed in the Grey Sheet ?

    Stewart
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭


    << <i>no one including conder101 or other slab guys knew about it. >>




    Who - prey tell - are these "other slab guys"
  • meos1meos1 Posts: 1,135 ✭
    What does this have to do with US Coins?
    I am just throwing cheese to the rats chewing on the chains of my sanity!

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  • Russellp23Russellp23 Posts: 397
    I started to bid on it this morning and forgot about it.
    Coins, shiny coins!
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    I admit I've never seen a Franklin half sample in that holder before. I would not have been a bidder on it myself though. And as to i being a new variety , it need to be clear to the forum that Cameron and I do NOT use the same cataloging system for the sample slab varieties and we also differ in that Cameron will list a previously known holder style with a different coin design in it as a new variety and I do not. Hmm I take part of that back. This is a new variety for me as well. It is based on the PCGS 4 slab so it is a PCGS 4SX. It has the 654321. and /12345678 serial number style like 4S1 but it has 00 in the serial number grade area and 4S1 has an actual grade. It has SAMPLE on the right side like 4S2 and 4S4 but they both have the actual PCGS coin numbers instead of the 654321. this is new and will be listed as PCGS 4S5 in the second edition.
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Your sample slab section is going to take up half the book next time conder101image You should see how many new ones I have been adding lately.

    "Are sample slab prices listed in the Grey Sheet ?

    Stewart "

    No, and they probably never will be.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Considering that the seller stated that about 100 were slabbed originally, a final price of $262 is pretty strong! Especially considering there are only a few folks out there that break the $100 mark for a slab (irrespective of the coin).

    Lane

    P.S. I am one of the other slab guys . . .
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    you go cammie...guess you taught me a BIG lesson image

    p.s.
    click on my ebay and bid on my sample image
    image

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OT - this is the coin forum......
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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    pontiacinf, is that one of the doily slabs?

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    This slab has a US coin inside and Carol has said we can discuss samples here. There are hardly any threads and if it bothers you I always put "sample" in the title and you can just skip it.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Geez.....I thought my paying $180.27 for this MS-63 silver dollar slab would be a record that would stand for a very long time.

    By the way, is this a unique sample slab because it is the only one graded MS-63? I wonder if this was the same one that outhaul used to own?

    CORRECTION: SEE MORE RECENT POST INDICATING THAT OUTHAUL USED TO OWN #009 and is now owned by astrorat.


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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I understand that toilet seats with coins encased them are also bringing record prices! image

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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Geez.....I thought my paying $180.27 for this MS-63 silver dollar slab would be a record that would stand for a very long time.

    By the way, is this a unique sample slab because it is the only one graded MS-63? I wonder if this was the same one that outhaul used to own?

    image >>



    That sample is not unique as I have seen others graded 63 (I own an example). I have not, however, seen dollar samples graded higher.

    Lane
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Astrorat: Can you supply me with more information on NGC MS-63 graded sample slabs that you have seen ? They are usually graded MS-60.

    The only NGC MS-63 graded sample slabs I have seen was the 1999999-013 numbered sample slab.
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  • TsimmerdownTsimmerdown Posts: 361 ✭
    This thread is off topic and should be moved.
    Tim
  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Someone needs to report this horrible abuse of sample slabs that according to Cameron's posts keep getting beaten and beaten. image

    I wish that you would all please stop beating up those sample slabs -- because they have not done anything to harm you! They are innocent!! image


    Stuart

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  • bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭


    << <i>This thread is off topic and should be moved. >>


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  • rottnrogrottnrog Posts: 683 ✭✭✭


    And the $262 Sample Slab had 2 cracks in it!!!

    Maybe the next one will be ok and set a new record!!!



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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,291 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>This thread is off topic and should be moved. >>


    Darkside Franklin??? >>




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  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    sweet

    a great thread keep them coming and really interesting too

    maybe there are more to be discovered

    michael
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry, the NGC sample #013 is a previously unattributed sample number in the NGC sample series and is not from outhaul. His same coin in the same grade (MS-63 is #009. Those two are the only two so far that have been graded MS-63 by NGC. All of the others are mostly Peace dollars thus far and all have been graded MS-60. Wonder if any of the missing ones are graded MS-65?
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