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cdwegnercdwegner Posts: 449 ✭
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Stupid question...


Do the collectors of sample slabs prefer collecting only the big guys, or will they collect anything that says "sample" on it?


For example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41089&item=3925062515&rd=1
The Wegner ARRC Bingle Set

Looking for 1967 PCGS/NGC slabbed coins.

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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    I collect legitimate sample slabs and not ones that are only made just for re-sale on ebay. They have to be given away for free and the intent of this company is wrong. They are trying to monopolize on the sample market and I'm not going to help them or bid on these so called samples.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • cdwegnercdwegner Posts: 449 ✭
    Cameron,

    That's *exactly* what I was thinking.

    It is a unique piece though.. It doesn't say MS70 on it.

    c
    The Wegner ARRC Bingle Set

    Looking for 1967 PCGS/NGC slabbed coins.
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Anything as long as it carries that wonderful word . . . sample!image

    Some of the sample slabs that have brought the highest prices are from companies that are out of business.

    Lane
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    But this company has given these pieces away . . . image

    So they are not just for ebay sales . . . so there! image

    Lane
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Get one for free Lane, one of each "type" they are making and I will add it to my site. If it is just being sold by this one ebay dealer forget it.image

    Cameron Kiefer
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    You may be missing the boat here, Cameron! Who knows what SGS will possibly
    evolve into? If they're pesky enough, they may just persist and these will become
    know as the early "primitve" samples from the King of grading services. image

    Ken
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh, I also picked up some ACC samples . . . yeah, you have not heard of those either! image

    Lane
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Well e-mail me some pictures so I can add them to my website Lane!

    Cameron Kiefer
  • GonfunkoGonfunko Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I collect legitimate sample slabs and not ones that are only made just for re-sale on ebay. They have to be given away for free and the intent of this company is wrong. They are trying to monopolize on the sample market and I'm not going to help them or bid on these so called samples.

    Cameron Kiefer >>


    I love the subtitle: <<SGS SAMPLE SLAB! WITH PURPOSE!>> They musta put that in just after you posted.
  • rottnrogrottnrog Posts: 683 ✭✭✭


    I have no intention of getting one of theirs. They are nothing but ripoff artists that are lower than ACG!!


    I do have an SGS sample, but it is from Strategic Grading Service and was made in 1995.


  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Rottenrog, would that be this one?
    image
    If so can you get me a picture of the back of the slab (And a better one of the front too if possible)
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,148 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That's right! Here is your chance to pick up a Sample Slab, AND give a company Feedback on the Slab and proposed Changes!! >>

    What could those changes be? Take the daring step down to giving coins the MS68 grade? image
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  • orevilleoreville Posts: 11,960 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had recieved one of those SGS samples for free. They did NOT even ask me to pay any postage which only cost them 60c. I had to fill out a questionaire and mail it back to them.

    It is my understanding that this company did send out a few samples for free including myself.

    It is the same exact one shown below which I will display the image without needing to click on the link.

    My opinion. Legitimate sample. But we are witnessing the next evolution of sample slabs in which the maker or the samples are observing the aftermarket of sample slabs with much interest.

    image

    image
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Lane,

    I've heard of the ACC samples but haven't seen any. If you have extras I'd be interested in one. If not I'd still like a picture (with rights of course).
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Oreville: I will consider adding that to my site if they indeed gave it for free and not just for one person.

    Conder101: I just e-mailed hi-res scans of a few samples you will want to use including the old SGS back as you requested.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 11,960 ✭✭✭✭✭
    kieferscoins: I did receive an email from the head person in which he indicated that others received the same thing for free. But this may mark the first time that a maker of samples gave them out for free and also sold some of them as well. That might be of interest in your book.

    In fact, whoever won that sample slab might have a famous slab in which it might have been the first sample slab sold by the sample slab maker?




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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>In fact, whoever won that sample slab might have a famous slab in which it might have been the first sample slab sold by the sample slab maker? >>


    That would be me.
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Thats not the first one he has sold. There has been at least 2-3 other ones before on ebay.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Since we are on the topic. You guys watching this sample?

    WOW!

    Cameron Kiefer
  • cdwegnercdwegner Posts: 449 ✭
    unbelievable.
    The Wegner ARRC Bingle Set

    Looking for 1967 PCGS/NGC slabbed coins.
  • ccexccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭
    Have any of you sample slab collectors been able to buy a 2004 nickel in a "PGS" sample slab? Every dealer exhibiting at the MidAmerica show in Rosemont, IL in late June received one for free. No dealer would sell one to me, though.



    Edited to correct the date of the Jefferson "Peace" nickel.
    "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Nope, don't have one yet.

    And yes I was watching the Compugrade sample but since I already have one it was just out of curiousity to see what it would go for. I dont think $241 is a new record for a Sample slab but i believe it is close.
  • rottnrogrottnrog Posts: 683 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Since we are on the topic. You guys watching this sample?

    WOW!

    Cameron Kiefer >>



    Yep, it's being watched!!


    image


  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭


    << <i>I dont think $241 is a new record for a Sample slab but i believe it is close. >>



    The record price is $265 for a PCGS 8.1

    Second lower price is $250 for a Hallmark 1

    Congrats on the purchase roger! This could easily be a $500 sample within 10 years.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • rottnrogrottnrog Posts: 683 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I dont think $241 is a new record for a Sample slab but i believe it is close. >>



    The record price is $265 for a PCGS 8.1

    Second lower price is $250 for a Hallmark 1

    Congrats on the purchase roger! This could easily be a $500 sample within 10 years.

    Cameron Kiefer >>









    I'm trying to corner the market on them, that makes 3 of them!! image



  • rlawsharlawsha Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭
    Seems like a god spot to show off a couple of my samples....

    image
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Nice! The blue label PCGS Morgan and the Peace NGC sample, both hard to find.

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


    << <i>Have any of you sample slab collectors been able to buy a 2005 nickel in a "PGS" sample slab? Every dealer exhibiting at the MidAmerica show in Rosemont, IL in late June received one for free. No dealer would sell one to me, though. >>




    I think the folks at the Mint and Secret Service would be VERY interested in these 2005 samples . . . yes, VERY interested. image

    Lane
    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    I was just wondering the same thing Lane. He might have meant 2004.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭✭
    Sample Slabs provide an excellent pause while I work on my type set.

    I bought the first 'new' (purposeful) SGS slab on Ebay more for novelty purposes than anything else. They probably won't like my survey results, though.

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