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The US is the only place where people care about TPGs, although PCGS is trying very_hard to expand into China. Don't blame them.
Sample slabs are novelties containing example coins, normally clad Moderns, produced for publicity by the TPGs.
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PCGS is trying very_hard to expand into China Or is China trying to expand into PCGS?  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Well China does produce a lot of "PCGS slabbed" coins.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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LOL  Not exactly PCGS, but one of the slabs looks like it even has a (fake) CAC sticker! I like how they use "cleaned" to mask the bigger fact about the coin... Edited by 0xDA71D
01/02/2015 10:57 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Speaking of PCGS expanding in to China.....  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Technically that's a promotional slab not a sample slab. It doesn't actually say SAMPLE.
Most people who collect "Sample" slabs collect promotionals or have picked up a few along the way.
Of course most people don't know that xxxx-retentive is spelled with a hyphen either. Nor that it's not OCD, it's CDO:
Compulsive Disease, Obsessive
Since that way it's properly alphabetized!
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Since I do not speak or read Chinese I can not tell if the word "Sample" is included on the label or not.
Edited by Penny Guy
05/05/2015 10:17 pm
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True...
Anyone?
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Penny Guy, the Chinese says the exact same as the English underneath. They put both so both audiences could read it.
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I have never held a slabbed coin in my hand. I seen them at stores but they pretty rare at the coin shops I got to. There might be around ten in a display case. I usually have zero interest in what they have in the so never asked to see them. It was a surprise when I went to a upper end store in Michigan and all of their counter coins were slabbed. I was relieved when I saw they had albums coins behind the counter.
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I've been collecting samples for a long time now.
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I have sample slabs from both NGC and PCGS--picked them up for free when I was about 12 back in 2001. They were handing them out as part of a "scavenger hunt" set up for the kids. Truthfully, I had always considered them to be worth a couple bucks at most... is that not the case?
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It depends on the slab. The common ones are just a few dollars, but some of the rare ones go for hundreds.
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Recently one of the rare ones (PCGS Doily sample WITH the RUFFCO sticker) was hotly contested on ebay... sold for around 250$ -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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