I was just reading the forum about the 1921, 1921D and 1916D dimes. The question was should the op fill his album, so there was a lot of mention about counterfeits, and buying verified, slabbed coins. Of course then the question is do you crack it out of the slab just to fill the slot in the album? So I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if there was some sort of a place keeper that was decent looking, and would say something like "This coin held in graded holder" or something to that effect? Would you want something like that in your album? I'm thinking the grading services could sell them as an added service to people who send in for just such a coin. Coin shops could sell them. And what would it look like? stamped metal? engraved archival safe plastic? Would it have just the little reference to the slab? or should it have some graphic that hints at the series? NOT something that could even remotely look like a counterfeit, obviously What do y'all think? or has someone already done this? or is it like, I don't care, why would you want one? Would you want one?
If the hole bothers you, make a photo copy of it, glue it to a piece of cardboard and plug that hole!
I have actually done that, just with a piece of paper and not a photocopy, but with a note saying "coin in graded holder" But I think it would be nice to have something that looks better. and paper and cardboard might tarnish the coin
It would be nice if the grading company offered something, say for $5, that had the coin details on one side and a hologram on the back.
There ya' go, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout. I love the hologram idea. It could be a photo quality representation of one side of the coin, and yet, without any doubt would not be a counterfeit or confusing style copy.
If it were me I'd probably just take a Roosevelt dime from circulation and put a circular sticker on it and write something like "NGC G04" or whatever the grade is. I plan to do this with my wheat penny album as I buy the "rarer" wheat cents.
