The Glendale Coin Club is a great club in the area that meets on the 2nd Friday of each month. Each show starts out with a show and tell and I brought the following for my show and tell this month: As you may guess, my show and tell was a display of various types of slabs used by PCGS over the years. While not entirely inclusive of the many varieties they've used over the years, it covers most of the major changes. Going from left to right, starting at the top, the first coin actual is a certified coin from David Hall's Numismatic Group which was certified in the early 1980s before David Hall helped start PCGS. The second slab is the first type used by PCGS starting in 1986 and is often called the "rattler" slab since the coins do rattle a bit in those holders. The third slab type shown is the rare "doily" label slab which was used very briefly in 1989 with the interesting pattern in the background of the label to help combat counterfeits. The slab was also a 2-piece slab which was basically the rattler slab with an outer ring which facilitated stacking of slabs. The fourth coin is also a 2-piece slab similar to the "doily" but with a plain light green label. The fifth and sixth coins are also green label coins, typically called "old green holders" or "OGH" in the marketplace and no longer had separate outer rings but were instead one-piece slabs. As you can see in coins 4-6, the actual color of the OGH label varies from a very light green almost white color, to a very vibrant yellow label and there are many shades in between. By the late-1990s, PCGS abandoned the green labels and moved to a blue colored label. Some earlier blue labeled PCGS coins will also show the "series" and "coin" number, as shown on the seventh coin. Each coin type was assigned a series, Lincoln Cents were #14. Eventually, PCGS dropped the use of the "series" on the labels and you get the common modern blue labeled holder as shown in the eighth coin. Recently, PCGS has come out with a new slab type, with the Secure Plus label which helps thwart counterfeiters and signifies that the coin was scanned by their new anti-doctoring equipment. As the ninth coin illustrates, PCGS also began to award + grades to nice examples of coins that nearly make it to the next higher grade. Anyways, after show and tell we had a short program by Phil Iversen on the Lewis & Clark exposition of 1905 which was held in Portland, Oregon. It was a nice program that covered the history of the exposition and showed a great deal of the exonumia related to the exposition and specifically the main logo of the exposition. Towards the end of the meeting, the club auction and raffle was held. I bought $10 in raffle tickets and completely struck out. Didn't win an thing! Oh well, the money goes to the club and towards better prizes for the next meeting. During the auction I did a little better. I sold a few currency lots that I put up for auction. Didn't sell much over face value, but they were very common notes so I didn't mind. The only thing I ended up winning were a couple of neat Alaska trade tokens which didn't cost too much. I didn't really know too much about them, but I thought they looked neat: Finally, the club is holding their annual coin show this Sunday, October 23, 2011 at the Van Nuys Masonic Hall on 14750 Sherman Way in Van Nuys, CA. It'll be a decent show with around 25-30 dealers and there will be a gold and silver coin raffle held at 3pm!! The club will be giving away a few gold coins including a $2.5 Liberty Gold and a $1 U.S. gold coin, as well as other gold and silver coins. Tickets for the raffle are $2 each or 6 tickets for $10. You don't need to be at the raffle to win, but you do need to buy tickets. If you can't make it to the show, but you'd like some raffle tickets, let me know before the show and I'll help get you tickets. :thumb:
