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My new sample slab website

acan451acan451 Posts: 357
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Hi everyone
I am very excited to tell you all that I have just opened my first website, With the sole purpoes of learning and sharing information about sample slabs.
This is NOT a coin form, just a place for sample slab collectors to learn and soon even be able to help each other.

The website will be a place that I will now be posting all my sample slab articles. I have been working very hard to build enough information in my sample slab articles, to create an archive, a place to read older articles you may need for information that may be of help to you with your sample slabs.

The hobby has been growing so fast I can hardly keep up with it. As I have been saying for a wile now,samples are selling for fare more than ever before. I have just seen some sell for $200.00 to over $300.00 and the rest are not only selling for higher prices, but selling at a very fast rate.

I hope this website will be of help to you, also help with answers you may have. It has just opened and I will admit it is still in the beginnings stages, I am learning just how much work there is to running a website, as well as writing articles. So as I learn more the website will grow, with information for the
sample slab collector.

Please let me know what you think, and remember, I am very new at this website stuff, so please be kind
Still working out the kinks LOL.
Here is a link to my new website
All the very best
Alan
http://samplecoinslabs.com/index.html/
My new sample slab article

Comments

  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    Very interesting! I added your article to my favorites list as I believe the only sample slab that I own is mentioned in your article. It is the 1964 10c Roosevelt MS64 in the old green holder(OGH). I just noticed the funny cert number: 12345678. Are they all given the same cert number? Now I'm not sure what to do with it,but I'm sure get some suggestions.
  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,910 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool. I have a nice collection of ANACS samples- I had friends there when they were in Austin and I was given some really cool ones. PM me if you'd like some pics for the site.
    You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    How close to reality pricewise is the one currently offered on the bay for $4250 under "PCGS sample coins"?
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    Hi Buzzybest
    To answer your question.
    First of all it is not a sample slab! It is from a time when David Hall graded coins himself.
    Before PCGS, that was opened in 1986
    The holders are rare and very sought after. A wile ago I was going to buy two Mercury dimes in this type of holder,
    and I was complaining at $150.00 for the pair. Now this is a 1876-s Morgan but, so what!!!
    Morgan collectors would know a lot more about the coin itself than I would.
    I have just seen Twenty (20) 1879-S US Morgan Silver Dollars $1 - PCGS MS65 buy it now for US $3,100.00
    In my humble opinion, there is just no way!!!
    All the best
    Alan
    My new sample slab article
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    Of course you're right,although it appears to be an 1879-S Morgan of the 3rd reverse variety. If I'm correct,that would make the coin fairly common,even in a MS65 grade.
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    Sorry typo 1879-s
    Alan
    My new sample slab article
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    That's ok,but this Morgan has me interested anyway. If you check 2012 Redbook versus PCGS values,there is still a significant difference for an 1879-S Morgan with either the 2nd or 3rd Reverse variety. If our host's values are close,then the holder is just a little icing on the cake regardless if it is a 2nd or 3rd variety. It's just the wide divergence in values that has me pereplexed.
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    I wish I could answer your question, It's just Morgans are not my thing.
    Alan
    My new sample slab article
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    Just a final TY for your advice. When I first cited this coin,as you know it was offered at $4250. If you check again,you will see that I was able to actually buy the Morgan for $1500! I know the coin is a common date MS65,but in this case,I bought the holder.Also,if anyone checks the label on the sealed flip,it says 2450.00 opposite coin #. I believe this was the buyback guarantee price that David Hall would pay any buyer that was dissatisfied for any reason.The history is fascinating and will certainly lead me to do more research on these types of holders.I wonder if the guarantee is still good.image
  • CEOcoinshopcomCEOcoinshopcom Posts: 350 ✭
    Alan, nice site. Love the info. Keep it up... because we all have questions, and this is a great subject.
    image
    I'm Just Sayin"


    http://www.coinshop.com
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    Thank you all for the kind comments
    I will do my best to make the site as much fun and interesting as I can.

    The site will grow and I will be adding new features as time allows, and my knowledge of running a website increases.
    Thanks again
    All th best
    Alan

    My new sample slab article
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    Hi Buzzybest
    Congrats on the new coin and Holder.
    I will admit I have never seen one before with a Morgan, and in total have only ever seen three with different coins.
    The coin itself is a beauty and the holder is the topping on the cake.
    Oh and by the way, I am now officially jealous. LOL

    Man you really talked that coin down nice job!!!
    All the best
    Alan

    My new sample slab article
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    TY,but it is with great humility that I must confess to discovering that I made a big mistake after calling Van Simmons at David Hall Rare Coins about an hour ago.He has been a partner of David Hall for over 30 years. After I directed him to the sellers description,he said that it was basically BS,and that David Hall never said anything like that about the flip's rarity. He further added that he has about 100 similar items for around $200 or less!I have already contacted the seller to cancel the sale,as well as reporting the whole incident to a human being on the phone at Ebay.Lesson learned on my part,and as I told Van Simmons,I hope David Hall gets a chuckle out of my story.image
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,393 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Buzzy:

    Hope it works out well for you - I was hesitant to say anything.........I don't see a completed auction. Was it purchased "outside" of ebay??
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932


    << <i>Buzzy:

    Hope it works out well for you - I was hesitant to say anything.........I don't see a completed auction. Was it purchased "outside" of ebay?? >>



    No,the item number is 320849091084.
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932


    << <i>

    << <i>Buzzy:

    Hope it works out well for you - I was hesitant to say anything.........I don't see a completed auction. Was it purchased "outside" of ebay?? >>



    No,the item number is 320849091084. >>


    This will now have a happy ending as I just spoke by phone with the seller in Toronto,Canada. He is canceling the sale tonite,and of course hadn't shipped it yet. It was also interesting that when he had listed the Hall flip at $4250,he received 2 offers at $3000 and 2250 that were rejected. The Hall quotes he said were read off a Toronto Coin Exchange site,which I am totally unfamiliar with,but which are nevertheless incorrect according to Van Simmons,David Hall's longtime partner.I feel like I've been taking a crash course in numismatics lately!
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,393 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He forgot to mention my offer of $200. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932


    << <i>He forgot to mention my offer of $200. image >>



    Now that's funny!
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    Hi Buzzybes
    I am glad everything worked out for you, Like I said I don't know very much about Morgan's and so
    I had to take what your were saying about the coin at face value. As fare as the flip goes from anyone I have talked to they all tell me they are hard to come buy
    Hope there are no hard feelings. I do the best I can with the little info out there on samples. But like I also said it is not a sample slab.
    All the best
    Alan
    My new sample slab article
  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932


    << <i>Hi Buzzybes
    I am glad everything worked out for you, Like I said I don't know very much about Morgan's and so
    I had to take what your were saying about the coin at face value. As fare as the flip goes from anyone I have talked to they all tell me they are hard to come buy
    Hope there are no hard feelings. I do the best I can with the little info out there on samples. But like I also said it is not a sample slab.
    All the best
    Alan >>



    Absolutely never a hard feeling as I said in my pm. Just mad at myself for not calling David Hall's office BEFORE I paid for the Hall flip.
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    Thank you my friend
    Alan
    My new sample slab article
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    Hey everyone
    I have already made some changes to thenew website, a good friend made the new banner and I think it is very cool.
    I had a few glitches and the site may have been down when you looked.
    But I am up and running again "Hey I am new at this"!! LOL
    All the best
    Alan
    http://samplecoinslabs.com/index.html/Alan
    My new sample slab article
  • stairmanstairman Posts: 60
    Not something I collect, but your site looks great. Put together very well.
  • acan451acan451 Posts: 357
    Thank you stairman
    That is very kind of you to say.
    I have had some great help with the website, as I am just learning how
    to find my way around the software and the workings of a website.
    All the best
    Alan
    My new sample slab article

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