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sadysta1
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This one may be just for you. Seems accurately graded too...
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I always think of ol' Cammie when I see those.....
Sold yesterday for $100. Accugrade samples are legitimately scarce, so not sure if this was a good buy for someone or not...?
ANA LM
USAF Retired — 34 years of active military service! 🇺🇸
Many accugrade coins were cracked out and crossed over so the plastic part of the slabs are rare.
thats cool
Thanks.
Last couple sold for $150, so this is either the new normal (since there have been 3 sold in the last year, they seem to be slightly less rare than they were) or it was a good buy.
ANA 50+ year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Author: 3rd Edition of the SampleSlabs book, https://sampleslabs.info/
I think it was a good buy in the current market. If a few more show up ... then it may saturate the sample slab market! I was watching, but not bidding.
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
It is worth precisely what the highest bidder is willing to pay for it I suppose. Prices often cannot be established by similar sales because sometimes there are no similar sales. I collect Sample Slabs and it is very difficult to add a specimen to my small collection from many of the TPG companies at any price because they seldom if ever come up for sale.
But isn't some part of coin collecting about having something nobody else has?
I've found that persistence is also a big part of it. For my collection of 56 state samples, I needed Alaska. Very rare, David had only seen one or two in all the years he was tracking sales and they went for $150.
Yet two surfaced for me about 3 months apart on eBay and neither was listed as a sample!
One was a generic ANACS (ANACS | America's Oldest Grading Service | Est. 1972) and one was for the Nebraska State Coin Show | September 27-28, 2008 (why they used an Alaska quarter for a Nebraska show in '08 instead of the '06 I'll never know)
Everything is out there, it's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time and happening to see it!
ANA 50+ year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
Author: 3rd Edition of the SampleSlabs book, https://sampleslabs.info/