PCGS Rattler Samples I have

bob48 · September 26, 2015 4:45PM

Here is a set of samples I have been working on for a few years now.

The set is collected two ways:

1st) coin number 05120 with different dates (05120=1960 MS dime) And

2nd) The correct PCGS coin number issued to the Roosevelt dime date.

Now here is the 2nd way to collect them.

Coin number 5233 is for 1958 Proof Roosevelt dime, so a Mint State coin should have the coin number 5116

Hope you enjoy these.

Still looking for any of the dates that are not pictured. These are all of the dates I do have.

Also on the coin number 5120. I don't know if these were all produced at the same time or at different times, meaning when they finally got the coin number correct or all dates were this coin number.

And that bring up one more question.

Which set was produced at PCGS and giving out first?

My Answer is the coin number 05120 was first! reason being that the 1960 dime was the first sample to be giving away and all the other dates followed with the same coin number, but then someone noticed that the coin numbers/date did not match and PCGS correct that little mistake.

Zoins · September 26, 2015 5:58PM

That's a very cool collection and way to collect!

Are the RUFFCO words on the 1964 MS64 on the inside or outside of the slab?

Thanks for sharing.

Treashunt · September 26, 2015 7:47PM

very neat collection, far more detailed than any I have ever seen

ricko · September 26, 2015 10:56PM

Interesting...I have never seen - or even considered - such a collecting niche.....Cheers, RickO

bob48 · September 28, 2015 3:08AM

These have been fun to look for!

Timbuk3 · September 28, 2015 8:43AM

Cool !!! :-)

bob48 · September 30, 2015 3:37AM

<< <i>That's a very cool collection and way to collect!

Are the RUFFCO words on the 1964 MS64 on the inside or outside of the slab?

Thanks for sharing. >>

Thanks to all the RUFFCO is a sticker that is on the outside of the slab.

bob48 · October 2, 2015 1:15PM

Thanks

AUandAG · October 2, 2015 1:21PM

The fun was in the hunt, 'eh?

Nice sets.

bob

Goldbully · October 2, 2015 1:24PM

Love this.....Coin World is calling!!

johnny9434 · October 3, 2015 2:53AM

a neat looking bunch.

bob48 · October 6, 2015 5:57AM

Thanks, these are fun to collect!

knightem · October 6, 2015 6:28AM

These are too cool...

bob48 · October 8, 2015 3:00PM

<< <i>The fun was in the hunt, 'eh?

Nice sets.

bob

>>

I am still hunting them. And some of the missing dates you would think are common but you just can't find them in the sample slab.

I have been working on the date set of samples for the different types and have a long way to go. The type 5 sample by Cameron Kiefer are fairly common but not all dates are easy to find! And then there is the variations in the label.
All in All, it is fun looking for these!!

sample slabs

or buy the book at SS Book

WaterSport · October 9, 2015 3:02AM

I have to be honest. This is the first time I have ever seen a "sample" collection worth looking at. Most of the time we see a newbie come along, someone mentions sample slab, and off they go buying until they realize they spent more money on a piece of advertisement, and have no coins worth collecting. Next you see them unloaded on Ebay, and the cycle begins again. But this is different and I enjoyed it being posted.

WS

bob48 · October 9, 2015 4:51AM

Thanks for all the comments. Even if you don't collect samples slabs, I think having some knowledge of them is helpful in not letting a rare sample sell to cheap.

Here are the first two types of samples. Type 1 (MS coin) and Type 1.1 (Proof coin).

Sample slabs has a new book out and can be ordered at samples book

I should have rattled the dimes and got them in the holder strait for their picture.

Dog97 · October 15, 2015 2:20AM

I've been collecting them 10-15 years. I think I was the first SS collector in the whole wide world. I arrange them about the same way, but arrange them by denomination. Open the boxes and cents are first, then nickles, dimes, quarters, halves, dollars, then the misc ones such as Luncheon, Dealers, Foreign etc. Then different boxes for NGC, ICG, PCI, etc etc. It never occured to me that any rattlers contained Proofs. Back when Conder101 did the original slab book we called the 00000# T1 and the T2 was the one with the actual coin #, if my memory holds true.

bob48 · October 20, 2015 8:47AM

Lost all the pictures for this thread with the new formatted forum.

I'll try to get some back in.

but I NOW have no idea how to get a picture in the thread!

oreville · October 20, 2015 3:27PM

Dog97,

You were probably the 7th SS collector in the whole wide world. But you might have been the lucky 7th!

Sample slab collecting started back in 1993 when a couple of guys thought it would be neat to save the doily (called confetti back then) silver dime sample slabs. They cost about 70 cents back then but I came in late and paid an unprecedented 80 to 85 cents each.

I was ruining the market, I was told.

Christos · October 20, 2015 4:07PM

Ok not sure what is going on but I can not see any of the images in this thread just little image boxes.

halfhunter · October 20, 2015 5:09PM

Neither can I but they were viewable before the forum upgrade.

HH

Treashunt · October 21, 2015 7:22AM

why did you delete all the pictures?

bob48 · October 23, 2015 3:37AM

Originally posted by: Treashunt

why did you delete all the pictures?

The new format for the forum deleted all the pictures!

I don't know how to put them back in.

Even in a new post.

Treashunt · November 4, 2015 10:10PM

What happened to all the pictures?

bob48 · February 11, 2016 11:00AM

Hope I can get all the pictures back in but error code 113 keeps popping up.

Thanks for all the comments. Even if you don't collect samples slabs, I think having some knowledge of them is helpful in not letting a rare sample sell to cheap.

Here are the first two types of samples. Type 1 (MS coin 1964-D) and Type 1.1 (1961 & 1963 Proof coin).

Cacoinguy · February 11, 2016 1:37PM

Hey bob did we discuss samples a while back through pm? If we did shoot me another pm i cannot access the old ones and have something you need

illini420 · February 11, 2016 2:35PM

Was great to see the sample display at the Long Beach show!

oih82w8 · February 11, 2016 8:50PM

I have been putting a set together for a little while, and I believe that the 00000.00/0000000 was the first sample slab (I don't have one of these yet).

(update)

Looks like bob48 had posted images of the all zero sample slab.