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Do "Susan G. Komen" PCGS MS-67 Morgans bring a premium?

over a regular PCGS MS-67 Morgan, i.e. 1881-S?

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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does anybody know how much was donated to that great cause on these?
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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who? Never heard of her.
  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I never heard of her either. So, to me, it is just an MS67 1881-S Morgan Dollar and I would not spend any more or less than any other MS67 1881-S Morgan Dollar.
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275


    << <i>Who? Never heard of her. >>


    Really Jon????????

    The largest Breast Cancer charity advocate...now a bit controversial, etc. etc.
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A premium?
    Of course not.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • MilkmanDanMilkmanDan Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Might be a great cause, but I would consider the slab a negative. As a collector, I'd rather have the coin in a normal slab.

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  • cupronikcupronik Posts: 773 ✭✭✭
    Was/am curious. You know, people seem to get excited about different PCGS slabs: first generation, doily, first strike, state flag, etc.
  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have not seen these obtaining a premium.
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nothing against the fight against breast cancer, but I would buy at a discount to make up for having to reholder it.
  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Nothing against the fight against breast cancer, but I would buy at a discount to make up for having to reholder it. >>



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  • cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 6,013 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The cause is personal and very imoprtant to me and I have several in those holders.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,881 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Might be a great cause, but I would consider the slab a negative. As a collector, I'd rather have the coin in a normal slab.

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    Where is the grade, slab number, etc? On the back of the slab?

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,972 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Time to re-slab is my first thought!
  • First off, y'all are a tuff crowd on the Breast Cancer Foundation. Maybe if it was the ASPCA ya
    might know about them but then again I'm not suire about that either. Anyway. I have this one
    pink ribbon slab and only because it has a 1879 S Morgan which is the only year and mint I
    collect in the series. The auctions I have seen for these slabs seem to draw a premium
    over what a price guide would suggest. I looked around and tried to see how much PCGS
    donated but need to maybe ask them. Did find this article from 2010 with comments from PCGS.


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  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    I would buy at a discount. I will give credit to the pr people, they got a ton of people to spend money to wear pink. The month of OCT the NFL was decked out in the latest fashions.
    Mark
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  • I think it is a great cause, but I do not care for the holders personally. To me, it would add neither a premium nor would it detract from the value of the coins.
  • 410a410a Posts: 1,325
    Tuff crowd ! You got no idea. Seriously, I just don't see a correlation between the price and the holder of course one of those CAC beans would help you get more $$. Regards, Mike
  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Its personal for me as well, but I would buy one at the normal price - no discount or no premium.

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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would buy at a discount. I will give credit to the pr people, they got a ton of people to spend money to wear pink. The month of OCT the NFL was decked out in the latest fashions. >>



    SGK pays for that. They don't get people to do it for free. Something like 70c of every dollar donated to SGK is spent on "awareness". Very little goes to research. SGK is the poster child for fat, over-administrated, wasteful charities.

    My guess is that SGK paid PCGS for each slab rather than PCGS sending money to SGK.

    --Jerry
  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I would buy at a discount. I will give credit to the pr people, they got a ton of people to spend money to wear pink. The month of OCT the NFL was decked out in the latest fashions. >>



    SGK pays for that. They don't get people to do it for free. Something like 70c of every dollar donated to SGK is spent on "awareness". Very little goes to research. SGK is the poster child for fat, over-administrated, wasteful charities.

    My guess is that SGK paid PCGS for each slab rather than PCGS sending money to SGK.

    --Jerry >>



    I figured that was probably the case but since i did not know for sure i was being a little vague.

    There are tons of worthy causes out there to support. Some spend more on the end product that others.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,284 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have not seen these obtaining a premium. >>

    neither have i. susam koman is a big name in breat cancer research and the sorts. look her up and learn image
  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a successful and meaningful breast cancer research foundation but their PCGS label coins do not bring a premium.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,881 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think these slabs are less than popular, especially among dealers, because all the info (date, mm, grade,etc) is on the back of the slab. The dealer would have to display it in his case up side down or add a sticker with the info to the front of the slab.

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  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    These PCGS pieces are part of the whole "pinkwashing" thing that many different companies/businesses have done over time, donating varying portions of their proceeds to SGK.
    Susan Komen was born and is buried here in Peoria, but the organization was founded by her sister Nancy in Texas...it has morphed into a big corporate monster. They get hundreds of millions in income a year, and her sister the (now former) CEO was making half a mil a year herself.

    According to a chart I found, their 2009-10 expenses broke down like this...

    Research (20.9%)
    Public health education (39.1%)
    Health screening services (13.0%)
    Treatment (5.6%)
    Fund-raising costs (10.0%)
    Administrative costs (11.3%)

    Seems to me that research and treatment should be the top two expenditures for an organization that demands that no other organization use "for the cure" under threat of litigation; I was surprised that treatment was only 5% of the total. Education, though certainly important, imo should be #3 behind treatment and research, and not #1.

    RIP Mom- 1932-2012
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The cynic in me is saying that the 39% for public education includes a lot of marketing and publicity. Interesting that it is about the same amount as research, treatment, and health screenings combined.
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    Can they be cac'd?

    If so I would prefer them.
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