Now here's a great sales pitch for a common PCGS sample.

ebay listing for a common 1964-D Roosevelt dime - the commonest PCGS sample, sometime offered on ebay in lots as large as 65 at a time! Worth $7-8 max.

You gotta read the whole thing. Pedigree slab...... :funny



YOU MAY NEVER SEE ANOTHER MINT STATE DIME

IN THIS TYPE OF PEDIGREE SLAB - QUITE RARE

1964-D ROOSEVELT DIME

RARE PCGS "SAMPLE" HOLDER

The top grading service in the business began certifying coins in 1986. They initially placed their graded workmanship in what's called the old "Rattler" slab. It lasted two years and they upgraded all their holders to a thicker, more protective holder. This style.

To introduce those new holders to the market, they literally gave away graded coins in "sample slabs". They used this marketing tool at coins shows, large auctions, trade events and numismatic meetings among collectors. All smart marketing and all well planned and wow did the coin market ever accept their services.

It's thought they used 500 coins of each type (dimes, quarters, halves, dollars, etc) over the course of 1988 to gain acceptance for this new type of holder. At the time is was a revolutionary breakthrough in protective coin technology. Needless to say it worked and today, PCGS and it's main competitor (NGC) are at the top of the grading service business. NGC has also seen an evolution in their holders.

The rarity about this item is not the coin itself. It's quite nice to be sure. Might even be FULL BANDS. White and very attractive. Rare ? Not so much except for the HOLDER.

Note the grade sticker used a basic "12345/54321" registration number. They eventually adopted, later in 1988, a more sophisticated numbering system to incorporate sample holders into their database. The numbering system on this coin means it was probably from the first several dozen on the dime sample slabs that year....all of which were 1964-D Roosevelt dimes. So you can literally place the certification of this very coin to somewhere in the window of the first month or two in 1988....27 years ago. So far back that what was initially a deep green grade sticker has yellowed a bit...to almost a light lime green.

The date: last in the series with silver - nice but not a lot of silver.

The grade ? nice but certainly not incredibly rare in this and even higher grades

The holder: "almost priceless" - a one of a kind find and possibly one of the few that will ever be offered

You may never see another sample slab in eBay like this one. It's the only PCGS sample dime slab on here as this listing comes live. The value of this item is clearly in this old pedigree holder. which in and of itself is actually a nice piece of coin history.

Even better, there's no reserve price and it ships free ! Spend your coin money on coins, not shipping.