Anyone know what these PCGS "Trader Bea" holders are (promotional item, dealer bulk sub, ....)?
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I recall seeing one of these at the ANA show and now ran across a few on eBay.
There is some sort of colorful slab insert and it says "Trader Bea" on the label.
Anyone have any info on what these are or where they came from?
Edit: I see there are also NGC versions. Is it some YouTube or other social media platform seller that got special slabs made?
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Update: I looked on Instagram and there is a person with that name that sells on Whatnot.
So that seems to answer the question.
It is interesting that PCGS and NGC did custom slabs for someone (but maybe that is a new revenue stream).
Yes, TraderBea (aka Bjorn) is one of the biggest coin / currency / bullion sellers on WN. I'd imagine he would have had to just spend enough $$ with PCGS to be able to get custom labels on a basic bulk submission. It's no different than Rick Tomaska or someone else in a similar position doing it.
I guess count me as not a fan.
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So they aren't event giving a number grade on the Morgans? Wonder what the cost is for a custom holder and deeming it "Brilliant Uncirculated"?
Outside of that, I don't mind the holder for the Morgan but hat 1760 1/2P looks hideous.
That has nothing to do with Trader Bea. It's an option for large bulk submissions if you don't want to pay for actual grading. You will also see grades like "genuine" on ancients and other gradeless labels.
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I will be updating the Sample Slabs white paper to clarify. These are technically samples - it says so on the label, which is the primary criteria.
In the 3rd Edition of the book, we have two TraderBea samples - the flood of purpose-built ones wasn't clear until after my cutoff. These are NGC-010-5-4, NGC-050-9-8, and the newer ones will be consolidated into a PCGS-Various-9-# number.
More generally, and because they are purpose-made for sale, I am treating these like the FASTCOIN samples from Joel.
Because of the variety of objects and the purposeful creation, I have just consolidated to a single Schwager#.
For FastCoin, this is PCGS-Various-5-1. (Note that we also have the copper FastCoin business tokens as PCGS-Token-9-1 and PCGS-TOKEN-9-2 ).
There is a series of purpose-made "PCGS Sample" EU coins in editions of 3 or fewer pieces. As we find out about more people having samples made for sale, we'll do the same in the taxonomy.
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This is a promotional slab design negotiated between a dealer and PCGS. I find it hideous and would have to discount the coin by the reholdering fee. I imagine there are also dealers who would do the same, since they probably don't want to use their inventory to advertise competing dealers.
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Just awful looking.
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