I've never seen an MTB slab before. Here is a link to the coin & slab: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270629113980 I'm just curious if anyone has ever seen one before. (I'm not personally interested in buying this particular coin or slab).
Apparently they slab thier own coins..... they must do that to save thier customers the heartache of 'separation anxiety' by not sending it to a well known third party grader.... but I digress...(again).
an oldie, the slip is their form. Someone else put it in plastic. MTB is Manfred Tordella & Brooks. Still around today, but not a slabber.
I wonder what years they issued their certificates. Was it only for coins that they sold or was it a certificate service? I found the following link for their company today. The Website claims they began business in the 1950s. http://www.mtbcoins.com/code/about.htm
Yes they are still around today http://www.mtbcoins.com/index.html However I doubt they gade anymore.
I do list it as a slab, and they were done by MTB. They used a Capital Plastics shell as did several of the services during this period.) They date from the 1986 to 1987 period. During that period they had four different slabs (Two of them differ only by the color of the holder and the seriel numbers so I may eventually combine them into one number.) The earliest MTB slabs were white. Next came the blue ones. I don't know when they switched but all of the white ones I have seen have had serial numbers below 40000, all the blue ones have been over 40000, but my sample size has been small, these are not easy to find. On the third generation the insert switched to a blue leatherette with a gold border. (These seem to have some serial number overlap with the second generation. All three of these have the MTB Banking Corporation label. The fourth generation uses the same blue leatherette insert but the label now lists the company as Manfra, Tordella & Brookes Inc. Apparently with the new name they began the serial numbers over again because these once again have low numbers <10000. The slab in the auction is an MTB 2. If I had the money I would probably chase it because the only MTB I own is an MTB 3. For the rest I only have images. Most pieces seen in MTB slabs are gold coins.
