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40,000,000 coin PCGS milestone. Post your examples of obsolete slabs?

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 26, 2018 10:21AM in U.S. Coin Forum

I think most of us old timers think of slabs as a new development. They're really not: The earliest commercially successful slabs appeared more than 30 years ago!

I adopted the word "proto-slab" several years back. The "proto-" prefix means

/ˈprōdō/
original; primitive.
"prototherian"
first; anterior; relating to a precursor.
"protomartyr"

There were dozens and dozens of shapes and sizes, from companies whose grading ran from super strict to incredibly loose.

And those early pieces are rapidly becoming extinct.

Show us some of your coolest, earliest, proto-slabs?

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 26, 2018 10:02AM

    An early NE Rare Coin Galleries protoslab. Note this coin was actually sewed into the flip!

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Early alpha-numeric ANA white slab, and a Generation 1.2 (I think) PCGS rattler, dating from Feb. 1986 - Sept. 1989

    https://www.pcgs.com/holders

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't you die on me!

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭✭


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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here's one I sold several years back...

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I used to see some of these old slabs at coin shows in the PNW when I lived there. Though I never saw one in which the coin was 'sewed' into the flip as in the OP. At the time, I considered those slabs to be 'junk' - unless there was a really nice coin inside (which I would purchase and crack out). Now, in hindsight, I wish I had acquired some of those old slabs. Cheers, RickO

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • santinidollarsantinidollar Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like these old ANACS slabs:


  • santinidollarsantinidollar Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Old PCGS and old NGC


  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now that's what I'm talking about, @Cameonut

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,765 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great thread!

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,840 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I could fill this thread up if I had slab pics of all the old slabs I have lol. But here are a few interesting ones; to me anyway.
    Some photo styles I have not seen yet in this thread.

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  • USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just picked this one up hoping to get a plus out of it

  • DollarAfterDollarDollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
  • DollarAfterDollarDollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those ^^^^^^^^ are all Gold Beaned.

    If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Has the milestone coin been announced or did I just miss it?

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,840 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A few more to close out the night; haven't seen any of these posted just yet although SGS is not really a slab to many.

    A few types that have been posted

    And a trio of '09 Lincolns in different old PCGS holders

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