I didn't realize slabbing has been around longer than i've been alive this coin was slabbed 2years 3months 5days before i was born. Is this one of the original slabs or are their older ones? link
That is not a slab but rather a certificate of authenticity and grade issued by the ANA. PCGS was the first successful slabbing company and they started in1986.
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Depends on what you call "slabbing". If it could mean, roughly, just encasing a coin in plastic there are examples of dimes from Oak Ridge in the 1940's that were exposed to "irradiated" and were encased in a way to protect them/display them. These are certainly collectible. I know what you mean, but if you broaden the definition a bit you can get into all sorts of neat collecting areas and niches.
That is a very pretty Morgan. I think the first slabbed and graded coins were the Redfield hoard of Morgan 1$ in the Paramount holders. I am not sure of the date these were slabbed.
I think the Early 80s ANACS started to grade coins, But I think they were put in enclosed platic pouches, not"slabs" I believe PCGS or NGC started that!
Before PCGS there was ACG, Paramount (Redfield), GSA, and others who are mostly now forgotten. Not sure which came first. Conder would know since he literally wrote the book on slabs.
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Slabbing with an actual grade attached was first done by Al Hager of ACG, I believe the first year was 1984. If I remember correctly PCGS had to make a deal with ACG to use there idea of slabbing when they decided to start in 1986.
<< <i>Slabbing with an actual grade attached was first done by Al Hager of ACG, I believe the first year was 1984. If I remember correctly PCGS had to make a deal with ACG to use there idea of slabbing when they decided to start in 1986. >>
Actually, DH disputes that. He said he only licensed their sports collectible holders. There were slabbers with grades before ACG.
mbbikers cetificate is the fourth generation of ANACS certificates and dates almost ten years after ANACS began operations (April 12th 1972). ANACS at first only did authentication and did not begin grading the coins until Jan 1979. (Grading began as a six month long experiment which never ended.)
While the GSA and Redfield slabs predate the ACG slab, ACG was the first American company to produce what we would consider today to be a true slabbed coin. A coin that has been submitted to a company, graded, and then sealed inside a hard plastic tamper resistant holder. ACG began slabbing in 1984.
It turns out though that ACG was NOT the first company to do slabbing. After the slabbook came out I learned of another company that began slabbing almost ten years before ACG. South Africa Gold Coin Exchange (SAGCE) began grading and "slabbing" proof Kruggerands in 1972. Their first generation holders used a sealed vinyl holder, but in 1975 they began using a sonicly sealed hard plastc slab.
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Billy
I think the first slabbed and graded coins were the Redfield hoard of Morgan 1$ in the Paramount holders. I am not sure of the date these were slabbed.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
<< <i>Slabbing with an actual grade attached was first done by Al Hager of ACG, I believe the first year was 1984. If I remember correctly PCGS had to make a deal with ACG to use there idea of slabbing when they decided to start in 1986. >>
Actually, DH disputes that. He said he only licensed their sports collectible holders. There were slabbers with grades before ACG.
While the GSA and Redfield slabs predate the ACG slab, ACG was the first American company to produce what we would consider today to be a true slabbed coin. A coin that has been submitted to a company, graded, and then sealed inside a hard plastic tamper resistant holder. ACG began slabbing in 1984.
It turns out though that ACG was NOT the first company to do slabbing. After the slabbook came out I learned of another company that began slabbing almost ten years before ACG. South Africa Gold Coin Exchange (SAGCE) began grading and "slabbing" proof Kruggerands in 1972. Their first generation holders used a sealed vinyl holder, but in 1975 they began using a sonicly sealed hard plastc slab.
Here are pictures of the SAGCE slab.
Tom
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