Passing Interest In Early Slab.... Well Sorta..

Time travel back to the late 1980’s. No internet. No CoinTalk.... All my coin info came from coin buddies and coin dealers and everyone was talking about the professional grading services. So I had to have one of these new professionally graded coins. And this was it. My first TPG coin....... Back to present day. The bulk of my collection resides in easy to store TPG slabs... Except this and it is the most unruly, darned near impossible piece of plastic to store. Before I make my life easier and dispose of this aggravating square of plyothene whatever.... Is there any numismatic interest from folks that maybe like to collect odd slabs and such?

 

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I think it’s definitely an appealing piece of numismatic history in regards to the early form of TPG.

 

I was afraid of that.... LOL

 

Quite a bit I would say...I buy items as such as yeah I find a lot of value in them. I cracked out an old Anacs soap bar slab of an 1834 bust quarter and i still regret over doing so.
I have 2 nice buffalos in the same..that I know without a doupt would grade higher,and one of them would I could use it raw...but wont crackem out.
The 1878 Morgan is a better vam if I recall I had 1 and mistakenly let it go.

 

There would be some and probably could sell it fairly easily and replace with another one.

 

Yeah, there's plenty of Morgan collectors here on CT. You could probably sell it quickly right here, nothing to lose at all!

 

You would likely see a premium over raw (and probably even over a generic slabbed 64) as people do collect these. My guess would be a price between $50-$70.

 

I appreciate it. I’ll leave it in the big plastic sheet that it is in and perhaps a future numismatist will appreciate that the Morgan still resides in it.

 

Randy, that slab is a collectible. You should be proud to own it. Now I want one. They don't make them any more.

 

They come up for sale quite often on fleaBay. There are three right now.

 

Well dang..... I appreciate knowing that. It is folded up and in a box with my nicer slabbed coins. That will be addressed tonight. Thank you.

 

Same for the ANACS ones - the coin was returned in a polyethylene bag (safe) inside a PVC flip!!!!

But lots of people apparently discarded the bag.


Still, it's the mystery of pvc - how one flip destroys a coin and the next one over (stored exactly the same way) is still fine 30 years later...

 

Suggest you offer your coin as is for the exact same date and grade in the slab of your choice. You get what you prefer and someone gets your item. Sounds like a WIN-WIN to me. If you get no takers sell as is and buy the same coin in your preferred slab.

 

Place the whole thing in a cover with non PVC and place it where ever you want, it's a keeper in my opinion.

 

Looks like a piece of history to me, I'd certainly keep it, but if you choose to sell it, I think it would be worth more than a normally slabbed coin due to its uniqueness.

 

In other words, it's a mystery.

 

Does it smell like a shower curtain

 

No sir. Not really. But then again in my bedroom about the only thing I can smell is this blasted spray she is always spritzing around...