Is this a sample slab?

ajaan

How old? Value?

BStrauss3

No.

According to David Hall,

These were an item in a Random House marketed Scott Travers "Coin collecting starter kit"

Travers, Scott A.
Find a fortune in your pocket change
ISBN 9780676600452


Known are 1917 to 1929 except for 1921, 1922 and 1926.

Worth about 5-10$ although some have sold on ebay for moon money, if you are patient, you can build the set (10 coins) pretty easily. The book is a lot harder to find.

ajaan

Thanks.

Bochiman

From LakeSammman's thread about Sample Slabs:

Lakes's thread

Style of sample 5 but not a PCGS sample



This from SS: 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.

Since CK wrote about this, a small number of 1917's have shown up. Also, the dates 1921 and 1922 probably were not produced in the 1917-1929 date run and have not been seen to date. It's unusual to not see these on ebay on any given day.

BStrauss3

I knew I had the photo (albeit a bad one) somewhere...

Lakesammman

They did make a 1926 as well.

Thanks for posting the Travers picture - will have to add it to the Sample thread!

BStrauss3

Sure go for it. You have permission to reprint ANYTHING I post about sample slabs. I owe you at least that for the help along the path to the dark side...