Interesting Slabs

There really isn't any significance ... unless you happen to get your hands on one that still has the Mint's strapping/packaging, and hasn't been opened, and the packaging states that the coins contained within were struck at the Philadelphia Mint, for example, instead of West Point or San Francisco, and you send them into a TPG company for Certification (before opening). Then you can find a bunch of suckers that will pay big premiums for those certified (Philadelphia struck) coins.

 

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They aren't suckers just because you don't like it. It's truly sad how many people in this hobby just want to demean everyone else because they don't like what it is

 

I'm one of those suckers!

 

Lol in that case well played. It's hard to tell though as so many would say that and actually mean it

 

My father must be one of those suckers. He passed in 1996 and left my brother and I his "coin collection". (In quotes because it wasn't too specific.) Anyway, I got 3 1988 ASE's with no mint mark. Anything special about them?

 

What is special about the monster box is that it's been sealed up since 2004 and now cracked open while there are plenty, plenty of other bullion silver Eagles that have been traded back and forth for 16 years. Look at the pictures of it on this thread, there's 500 coins, in 25 tubes, tightly packed, strapped up and sealed in a big Green box.
if you are a person that cares about condition those are likely gonna be "mint fresh". In the end its no different than any other slabbed bullion silver eagle of similar grade and year but people like slab labels, I don't care, but people do. I think the shipwreck coins are ugly and would never buy one but people like a catchy label for an otherwise damaged coin.

Like I said earlier it's a labeling gimmick really, People like labeling gimmicks though and will pay extra for them. Not everyone, but they don't need everyone, just a couple thousand out of 330 million people to offload some dealers forgotten back inventory he couldn't sell and got stuck with that was collecting dust. Hahahaha.

It's probably what happened though.

 

When I got my father's "coin collection", I wanted to know all about the coins he left us. I really liked the foreign coins. My father was in the Navy during WW II, submarine duty. Anyway, I have several coins from several countries from 1910 to 1950's in pretty good condition. He also like to collect $2 bills. I had so much fun, I started research (retired CPA) to find out all I could about coins. I fell in love with the Morgan dollars. I got about 30 and my brother got 30. A lot of fun and work. You guys have helped a lot. I just found you this past year. Thanks.

 

Well they are 1988. It's the 3 year of issue. Not many of them in the first decade made it to MS70 or even MS69 compared to the ones starting in 2000s. Maybe there's been 100 1988s grade MS70 ever? Those years predate the grading fad explosion, predate ebay, predate real internet... finding high grade early silver Eagles is hard.

Other than that it's a silver bullion coin worth melt value if it wouldn't grade highly.

 

Very true. The early dates have massive premiums for 70s as many years went by before people really cared about the condition

 

Probably won't grade high. Dad did put them into slabs to protect them. Maybe....

 

The box depicted had nothing to do with the listing.

 

So, these weren't slabbed by a TPG, your dad just put them in holders? Have you extended the collection? Which coins do you like?

 

Gold ones.

 

uh...me too, but are you collecting them?

 

Don't know what I like more.

(1) "The Monster Box Collection(TM)." Not quite the cache of the Eliasberg collection.

or

(2) "ANACS MS 69" and then, further down on the label, just in case you were wondering if that means it is ANACS certified . . . "ANACS Certified."

 

I have a few in my SDB.

 

Not interested in any mint coin, the premium the authorized distributor has to ask for makes it to expensive at this time. Maybe later, who knows, only the Shadow knows...

 

Hope your brother will collect too. What a nice legacy to leave. Years of lots of fun, learning and collecting.

 

I have a green eagles box. I use it to store rolls of common wooden nickels. What are the dimensions of the box in this photo please? thanks.

 

I wish my brother would collect. Just recently, he told me they were in a box somewhere. I offered to buy them from him, but he said he would "give them to" me. I'm 72 and he just turned 70.