Pcgs rattler holder with barcode? Slab experts please chime in!

In this case with or w/o the slab the coin is worth about $35 bucks.

 

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2nd Gererations slab with the outer ring missing but it is still a neat looking slab that way.

 

Those old slabs almost always add an additional $10 or more to the raw value which is under $30.

 

Well, why on earth would someone crack the outer shell?? Certainly they didnt think the coin would upgrade. Maybe they wanted to pass this off as a gen 1 slab. It worked, i didnt even notice til i got home to check vam#

 

Robert Paul got it before I had a chance to answer. It is a damaged PCGS 2 slab. A two piece slab with the outer band broken off.

Why would someone break off the outer band? Sometimes because they just didn't know better, sometimes they just didn't care, but the most common cause was probably dropping the slab. Drop one on a hard surface (such as a concrete floor at a show) and the outer band can break.

 

As always conder, u are a plethora of info.
Albeit a tad late lol

 

You gotta post some Morgans. I'm a bit of a 1921 freak myself.

 

The shell has simply been removed from your slab.

 

They break... it's the thing that takes the most stress when you drop them. It is SOMETIMES possible to replace the band. Well at least I know somebody who knows somebody who claims to have done it.

 

ill show u mine if u show me yours lol.... j/k
I mostly just cherry wide reeds... but have picked up a few capped R and pompadour T.... always looking for thornheads and the elusive unicorn D, oh yea not to mention any V47 or 1ag.... this is probably my fave '21>

 

Post a thread so we don't hijack this one. I've had a few pass under my lens.

 

Ill see if I can find the thread about the pompadour T I scored.... ill re-hash it... stand by

 

I am very late to the party but I can answer your question. This appears to be a third generation PCGS OGH slab. The first slabs were just the rattlers. The second generation were the popular short lived doily holders which were basically a rattler with a plastic outer frame. The 3rd gen (the pictured coin) was the same rattler as the doily but back to a solid green label with barcode and again a plastic outer frame. When that outer frame breaks off as they sometimes do, you are left with just a rattler that has a barcode label.