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What do you know about HE Harris & Co., their coins & slabs?

KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just a coin supply producer, not a slabber. Their product is good.

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They were acquired a while back by Whitman Publishing, publishers of The Red Book.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think their biggest mistake is slabbing the coins upside down. ;):p

  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭

    Let me know if you have any specific questions.

    -- Dennis

  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 20, 2017 9:30PM

    @Dentuck said:
    Let me know if you have any specific questions.

    -- Dennis

    1. Were these slabs & coins given out as promotional items?
    2. If not, what we're they made for since grade & date of the coin are not shown on the slab?
    3. Why is the American flag used as background on the slab?
    4. App how many of these slabs were issued & for how many years?
    5. When were they 1st issued? or
    6. The slab was bought by another party and they slabbed the coin?
  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,673 ✭✭✭✭✭

    aren't they just empty holders sold to collectors who filled them?

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 20, 2017 10:06PM

    Exactly, just empty plastic holders that retailed for around 89 cents or something.

    I still have lots of them, unused, that were intended for Statehood quarters. Lots and lots of Harris plastic tubes for holding rolls of quarters too.

    Supply company, NOT a TPG.

  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @KollectorKing said:

    @Dentuck said:
    Let me know if you have any specific questions.

    -- Dennis

    1. Were these slabs & coins given out as promotional items?
    2. If not, what we're they made for since grade & date of the coin are not shown on the slab?
    3. Why is the American flag used as background on the slab?
    4. App how many of these slabs were issued & for how many years?
    5. When were they 1st issued? or
    6. The slab was bought by another party and they slabbed the coin?

    I'm not Dennis, but I can answer a few of those, as I have some....

    1. They are NOT slabs. They are plastic interlock holders/cases that have cardboard inserts where you can put in whatever coins they are sized for. The ones for SAEs have done a great job toning the SAEs over relatively short periods of time.
    2. They have been made for gift/display purposes. Some have the American Flag, some have the eagle, some have Santa, some have Happy Birthday, etc etc etc. I've never seen any with dates as they are pretty generic....it sells better and is much cheaper to make/stock.
    3. It's used because people want them that way for display/gifts. I have given some out, and displayed some others (I'm ex-Army and giving some SAEs as gifts to ex-military, or patriotic people, is nicer when done with something like that. And, at ~$2-4 per item, it isn't that expensive.
    4. They've been around for awhile and there is no count on them.
    5. Years ago.
    6. They aren't a slab. Again, they are NOT slabs.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,673 ✭✭✭✭✭

    here are some on eBay - you can 'slab' your own

    ebay.com/itm/5-American-Silver-Eagle-Frosty-Case-Holders-Eagle-and-American-Flag-HE-Harris-/151612626984?hash=item234cd11828:g:-~8AAOSwWxNYwjlU

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They are great for protection of coins you do not want to send to a TPG for grading...Gifts, displays or just storage. I have them and use them for such purposes. Cheers, RickO

  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭

    I apologize for the delayed reply! I thought I had it set up to notify me by email when anyone posted to this conversation.

    Were these slabs & coins given out as promotional items?
    I seem to recall Stack's Bowers Galleries (or one of its earlier incarnations) giving out promotional silver dollars at an ANA convention or other coin show. That's the only specific example that comes to mind. Others may have done the same over the years. Chances are, though, that your coins were simply part of someone's collection, and the H.E. Harris case was a convenient way to store and display them.

    As others have mentioned above, these aren't "slabs" in the way we think of the plastic encapsulations used by professional third-party grading firms to authenticate and grade coins.

    Here's a whole catalog full of them: https://whitman.com/store/Inventory/Browse/Coin-Cases.

  • BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good quality products, especially their albums which are in my opinion better than the blue Whitman folders.
    but Whitman actually owns H E Harris right now.

    Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
    a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"
  • coinpro76coinpro76 Posts: 366 ✭✭✭

    I get all my trusty coin tubes from HE Harris

    all around collector of many fine things

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