I must admit I'm not up on sample slabs etc. but I saw this one in a half price bin at the show yesterday and picked it up. it's an PCGS Authentic 1926 Lincoln Cent and it's a Woodie! Not sure my images will show the wood grain tone but it's there, for the price it was a winner.
That's a kind of a sample slab of sorts. I'm not sure what they go for but I'm betting the seller didn't really know what he had.
I received this one from my Secret Santa in CoinTalk's 2014 holiday exchange. It was explained to me as a PCGS slab from a coin collectors starter set. The go to site for info on these is: Sampleslabs.com 1919 Lincoln Cent - Wheat Reverse PCGS Authentic.
Technically, these aren't sample slabs. Rather, the slabs were part of a promotional offer and PCGS encapsulated them. The slabs are still pretty neat.
I replied on that other board, but here goes again - this is from the Scott Travers book/kit, "Find a fortune in your pocket change", ISBN 9780676600452. They used circulated Lincoln cents from 1917-1929 except for 1921 and 1922... I just completed my shortset of these. Run from about $5-10 with a few higher sales and some people with inflated notions of value (one is BIN on eBay for $60 and has been sitting for months). Oh and reportedly they make 100s of thousands of them...
NECRO POST ALERT --8-- YEAR OLD THREAD In all the years I've been tracking these, over 8 years, I've seen ONE 1916 for sale and I missed out on it on eBay. It means that I can't claim to have the complete set. Until... two weeks ago when a run of 8 (1916, 1918, 1920, 1923-1925, 1927-1928) (so missing 1916, 1926, and 1929) showed up on eBay. BIN. You can bet I broke a nail clicking. And then - you know those sellers who don't use tracked shipping... silence. tick tock tick tock. Until today when an unassuming yellow bubble wrapper landed in the mailbox from North Carolina. Yay!!!!
