TPG Holders With Pedigrees

That's nice and all. but provenance is important. Stuff like the Eliasburg and DL Hansen Collections do carry a premium for the pedigree.

While I can understand your position to some degree, it appears you are preventing yourself from acquiring some choice coins. Some, not all, coins in pedigreed holders are better than average in terms of either their strike, condition, luster, overall appearance, etc. - they were often purchased by advanced collectors who had an eye for quality.

Given the opportunity, I will always go for a coin of better quality vs. lower regardless of what might appear on the TPG holder. Just my opinion...

I too respect you decision to collect how you want, I like and seek out certain provenanced holdered coins. Eliasberg, Garrett, Norweb Col. Green, Binon all can and do regularly bring a premium as well as a certain reverence to a particular coin. In the world of Early American Copper coins, having the name Clapp-Sheldon or Holmes- Husak on the holder not only will make the coin more valuable it also lets the world know it was once a part of a world class collection, some unmatched by anyone else on the planet.

But on generic named or signature holdered slabs I can agree, I don't really care about a 1952 Quarter from Joe Blow's Collection even if the label says so. Now if Joe Blow was a top expert in Washington quarters and it came from a finest known collection, then I'd be more inclined to keep it with the name on the holder label. I also don't buy into nor care about 1st strike coins or 1st day of issue from modern mint products.

Now of course there are a few coins that are so famous it doesn't matter if their provenance is on the label or not, everyone knows from the coin alone, like the 1913 nickels, 1804 dollars and a few other nearly unique coins (all very high dollar and newsworthy when they sell).

I purchased one coin some time ago in an NGC holder with a name on it I didn't know, and couldn't find online, so I called a friend at NGC and asked them why this name was on the holder. Turned out it was a family that honored their late grandfather when they had some of his coins graded for sale at auction. I was also told pretty much anyone could have the same done on their submissions, for a fee of course and nothing vulgar or misleading, NGC has final say since it's their reputation on the line.

@Slider23 I just read Colonel E.H.R Green's wikipedia page....and now I know the pedigree...Good read...had his amputated leg exhumed and later buried with his body...not many can say that.

I personally love pedigrees on my coins (full disclosure, I currently only own one pedigreed coin), it gives me even more personal history for that coin.

Slider23 if you really want a in depth history on Colonel Green. I suggest getting the book "The day they shook the plum tree" by Arthur H. Lewis it's a very, very well written book on a very interesting person that really was larger than life. It's long out of print and copies of paperbacks are often popping up on ebay and Amazon for cheap. Can't recommend that book enough as a biography.

I just searched and was surprised by how much the paperbacks are selling for, keep an eye out or make a search on ebay that emails you - I got a copy for just a few dollars last year.

Just FYI....noticed some coins with a "Larry Shapiro" pedigree....I wonder how much someone paid PCGS for that!