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Is this sample slab really worth $405??

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
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1st generation "error", the mint mark not noted on the holder. $405 image



Link to auction
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    I guess it`s like they say...
    It`s worth what someone is willing to pay for it
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    YIKES I gotta list mine then!! Paid $15 for it at the BM a few years back

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  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I`ll give ya $20 for it image
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, not for me.
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners. :smile:
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ambro, that's only an error if there's NO MM. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • TinyTiny Posts: 2,598

    Well big bucks I'm not sure but for the sample collector it is the grail so to speak. The second
    style of these holders held some proof graded coins , those also are scarce. Another is the "Doily"
    slab which fetches high prices. I have been thinking about collecting these one day and with prices
    like that I better hurry up and start. hehe
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I kinda would like to know what your Morgan $ sample slab would bring on ebay.
    If I had seen that slab at the show before you, I would have snapped it up in a heartbeat.

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    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

  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,151 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whoa! I would have figured on a winning bid of about $90 or $100 myself.

    I found one of them about 20 years ago for $5 and also obtained a 2nd one from wingsrule's fabulous collection.

    I believe there has to be at least 6 or more of these laying around, undiscovered.

    What might be even MORE interesting would be the same generation PCGS 2 (rattler) sample dime labeled 1964-D but which has a P mint in the slab????????

    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oreville:

    Want to double your money? image

    I bet the seller just about wet his pants when he saw the price realized. image

    Bochiman - another Morgan sample sold for roughly $60 this week - on paper, I'm up 50%. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,151 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lakes:

    The seller requested $1.35 for s&h. That indicates to me that he was not expecting more than $50 or so???

    Sometimes incredible prices like these becomes the new real prices on these different numismatic items, sometimes they are just an aberration. Time will tell.

    By the way Bochiman's son birthday party sample slab is special to me. It is awesome!
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, and I did not even have to look at the link or image. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • TexasNationalsTexasNationals Posts: 3,837 ✭
    Whatever, I am up to 9 NGC black slabs now, all unknown and am getting ready to say forget it and sell them and buy some real coins, same with the PCGS MS-67 unattributed type B reverse Washie, pop 4 or at least it was and he one I got in a lot was a type B. So much specialized such I know there are buyers out there, just waiting on those right classic head C,D, and O gold coins to show up then gone. Someone here collects the high grade Washington Type B's and I know 2 or more wan t the NGC black slabbed coins, is it time?
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,392 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>1st generation "error", the mint mark not noted on the holder. $405 image



    Link to auction >>



    Roughly $400 over melt.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Two bidders must have really, really wanted that sample slab.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    STUPID !! STUPID !!! STUPID !!!!
  • CasmanCasman Posts: 3,935 ✭✭
    How does the one that sold compare to say this one? Is there really that much more interest in the paper insert?

    Link to sample
  • BXBOY143BXBOY143 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭
    some more on ebay....


    I like the 25th anniversary slab
    https://m.ebay.com.my/myebay?mfs=tabs&actionName=SELL_OVERVIEW
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Casman:

    BIG difference, if you collect memorabilia (ie: plastic). image

    1st generation vs 2nd.
    Error vs non-error insert.
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is this sample slab really worth $405?? >>



    Well, at least two folks thought it was worth $400 to them.

    Whether or not thats a sustainable price means nothing to these two folks since the winning bidder, I'd bet, bid way more than $405.
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>some more on ebay....


    I like the 25th anniversary slab >>

    Certainly PCGS Sample Slabs but none that are like what was sold nor as unique.
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • ibzman350ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭
    that bidder has been paying stupid money for a buncha samples.

    Maybe time to sell a few of mine.


    Herb
    Remember it's not how you pick your nose that matters, it's where you put the boogers.
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  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is this sample slab really worth $405?? >>



    Not to me, but as they say, "One man's junk is another man's treasure", yada yada. If you doubt that saying, just watch an episode or two of American Pickers. image
    I never thought that growing old would happen so fast.
    - Jim

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