Delux Slabs made out of Glass and Silver
braddick
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Why not? How about if the submitter was willing to pay extra PCGS offered custom slabs made out of the highest quality glass (low glare) with a silver foil insert with black font lettering.
They would weight a bit more but I'd imagine on your special coins the look would be outstanding.
These holders would be presented to you in a custom cherry wood box (smaller version from that which is sold now through PCGS).
They would weight a bit more but I'd imagine on your special coins the look would be outstanding.
These holders would be presented to you in a custom cherry wood box (smaller version from that which is sold now through PCGS).
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<< <i>PCGS tried a fancy extra cost slab called the Regency. It was an oversized slab and you could add your own message on the label within reason. It came in a fancy velvet bag with a draw string. They dropped it after a couple of years since very few people elected to use this option. The problem with glass is it would be very difficut to sonically seal them. >>
1- Yes. I owned a Recency slab. It's not even in the ballgame. Still plastic and larger (in this case) is not better. The beauty of the holder I'm thinking of would disgrace the Regency holder. Smooth high quality glass that would afford perfect viewing of the coin. The total package would be highly attractive and on your special coins, totally worth it.
2- Glass would be difficult to sonically seal but not impossible. In fact, in some ways, once sealed, the glass holder would be more secure than plastic.
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that sounds dangerous, drop a glass slab and what?
are you asking this because your looking for an alternative to aide in better viewing of the coin?
I watched one of those Modern Marvel series on the history channel. It was about "the making of eyeglasses" Seems to me if they can mill plastics down to correct vision, couldnt smoeone create a slab that had the same "vision" properties as this eyeglass lenz.
maybe thats a stupid question, but glass just does not sound feasible IMHO- but great thread
thought provoking indeed
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<< <i>braddick---Bottom line: can PCGS sell enough to make it worth their effort? >>
Well, I have five I'd send in today if this service was offered and I wouldn't blink paying $100. per coin extra.
On your best coin- the ones you cherrish the most, be it a killer rainbow toned Morgan in MS67 or a VAM that is downright rare and desireable, or any coin of your choosing- can't you see yourself wanting it custom holdered and presented well? Shouldn't the holder be as worthy as the coin?
We pay so much for our coins to begin with that sticking our most prized ones in $5. (that's the reholder price) plastic slabs seems almost unkind and mocks the coin.
I believe out of the millions of coins already PCGS graded there would be a few hundered, if not a few thousand, that would end up being holdered under this new service. I think it would be profitable for PCGS.
I have several coins that I would consider the extra cost to have slabbed that way.
You have pull with PCGS. Offer the suggestion.
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etexmike
I think it would be cool looking if they could engineer it to the same size as the current slab with the entire slab clear. No textured surfaces, just clear glass with rounded edges.
It would be sharp if the coin & label had a floating in space effect like a coin sealed in a paperweight type of look. They could be slightly concave to form a rim that really wouldn't
be visible unless looking closely. I guess they wouldn't stack well but so what- The sole purpose would be the best presentation possible.
And PCGS really could work on making the label look nicer.
<< <i>that sounds dangerous, drop a glass slab and what? >>
Then make them out of a plane cut enormous flawless diamond instead of glass. These would have to be for megaspecial coins and you definitely do not want them to be rattlers if they have even the slightest edges or points.
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<< <i>Why not? How about if the submitter was willing to pay extra PCGS offered custom slabs made out of the highest quality glass (low glare) with a silver foil insert with black font lettering.
They would weight a bit more but I'd imagine on your special coins the look would be outstanding.
These holders would be presented to you in a custom cherry wood box (smaller version from that which is sold now through PCGS). >>
Sounds like cracking out a slab might be a little more dangerous...!
25 dollars per slab for any coin you want sealed and it will be the same size and thickness of the pcgs slab and you will be able to see the edge as it has four edges the coin fits into
Russ Logan, co-author of "Federal Half Dimes 1793 - 1837" and "Early United States Dimes 1796 - 1837" wrote a fascinating article in the December 1999 issue of the John Reich Journal (official publication of the JRCS) entitled "Slabbing Circa 1840", in which he told about Boston glass blower Thomas Cains, and the incredible glass pieces he manufactured. One of Thomas Cain's many talents was to produce a glass bulb, or knop, in the piece he was making, and somehow encapsulate a coin within the glass knop. Russ described several known, although very rare, Thomas Cains pieces in which were encapsulated Capped Bust dimes and half dimes. The glass 'knops' are completely airtight, and have completely encapsulated and protected these coins for over 150 years. In his article, he actually attributed the Capped Bust dimes and half dimes he had seen in several Thomas Cains glass pieces, including an 1834 JR-6 dime.
Perhaps of greatest interest to me was an 1831 LM-6/V1 Capped Bust half dime, an R1 marriage, in commercial UNC grade, but completely original, with surfaces untouched by human hands, not even exposed to the environment, since ca. 1840. What made this even more incredible was that Russ had traveled 1000 miles, from his home in Cleveland, OH to my home in Maine, drove me about ten miles from my home to a world class glass museum near my home, took me upstairs to a second floor display case, and there, on the top shelf was a beautiful Thomas Cain blown flint glass goblet with a knop in the stem, and there in the stem was the 1831 half dime. I had visited that glass museum a couple of times, but was completely unaware of the 'slabbed' half dime, yet Russ, who lived half a country away, knew exactly what and where it was.
So encapsulating coins in glass is an old idea that certainly predates David Hall's slabs ....... by about 130 years.
If it's possible to make bullet proof glass and shatter resistant glass (think windshields) then how difficult to make break resistant glass? Plus, really, how aften do you drop your coins/slabs onto concrete floors?
That's kind of cool it was 'done' 130 years ago but I'd think we've come a long way in perfecting glass so as to make it a more viable format in almost any application- including the safe and secure (and attractive!) holdering of valuable coins.
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2- Glass would be difficult to sonically seal but not impossible. In fact, in some ways, once sealed, the glass holder would be more secure than plastic. >>
Glass cannot be sonically sealed.
There are other methods to weld a glass seam.