I've never seen this label before. It's on an older ANACS holder, perhaps early-mid 2000s. I'm trying to figure out what the significance would've been for ANACS to put Reagan on the label. The coin itself wasn't minted during his administration and it's an ASE--Reagan's nowhere on the coin. I've seen the grading companies use special labels for the presidential dollars, and I've seen ANACS use a special Ike label for Ike dollars (http://content.propertyroom.com/lis...ecial-label-888888946_2392016128261961851.JPG), but I cannot figure this one out. Did they do some sort of promotion after his death? Is the label meant to pay tribute to the fact that the mint's production of these coins occurred during his administration? Here are pictures to the coin in question and a link to the eBay auction I found it on: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1998-ANACS-...710735?hash=item3adff88a8f:g:3o4AAOSwls5Y7KSv Any help would be appreciated, because I'm lost on this one.
Reagan was the president that signed the law authorizing the mint to start minting and selling gold & silver bullion (ASE's & AGE's) in 1986 so the label is quite fitting. Its also why they added a silver eagle to the Reagan C&C set which is still available in the mint website btw.
Yeppers, I alluded to this in the OP. Very fitting, and I can't seem to find them doing this kind of label for any other coin series/president, so that hypothesis is as good as any. I would think that a program like this might be long lived, and would dish out more labels than the two I've been able to find online. I've also never seen this label in 10 years of collecting, a year or two of which I was collecting ASEs. (Which is why I find the label peculiar). I've been out of it for awhile, and this I was unaware of. Very neat. I don't typically buy mint products, not a fan of the moderns, but I think I'll grab a set. Thanks.
If I recall correctly the slab label thing started around '98 or so. But by 2001 it was in full swing and several different TPGs came up with all sorts of different slab label gimmicks. And that's all they were - gimmicks. And yes it went on for quite few years. To a degree, it's still going on. If you tried to get examples of all of them, you wouldn't have a closet in your house big enough to hold them all !
