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Valued Member
United States
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I got started collecting sample slabs about 15 years ago thanks to the late sample slab guru Cameron Kiefer.
I now have about 500 different but quit collecting new ones about 5 years ago when the grading services started making new ones every day. Just too many to try to get. I still pick up older ones I find that I don't have.
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Conder101 is the man you want to speak to.  |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Yea, I already know him. Have his book.
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United States
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We have a few others. I'm going to move this to Main Coin for a broader audience.
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Pillar of the Community
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4594 Posts |
Count me in...
-----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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Australia
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I only own one slabbed coin, and it's a sample slab. So I guess I'm a "yes".
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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LOL sap. Is slabbed coins not a big thing in Australia, as it is in Europe?
What's in the sample slab? Is it SILVER?
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United States
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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
United States
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Well China does produce a lot of "PCGS slabbed" coins. |
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United States
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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
United States
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Speaking of PCGS expanding in to China.....  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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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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United States
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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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Posted 01/01/2015 10:19 am
