Has NGC Gone Overboard with Slabbing

What is it with NCG and their slabs?

I just go an email advertising pre-sale of 2018 Silver Eagles.

While the coin in each slab is the same, the Silver Eagles they are offering are in no less than 14 different types/colors/labels in the slabs. Forgive me is a missed a few – there are so may I might of missed a couple. I didn’t see any autographed slabs, but I’m sure those will be coming soon, just adding to the already large pile.

From White Label 1st Release to Brown Label and from Eagle Label to Black Label Early Release, the list is a long one.

A question to you Silver Eagles collectors, does this drive you just a bit crazy??

 

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"Gotta catch 'em all!"

Good grief...

 

It is actually one of the reasons I quit collecting them. Still like them, but no longer have any.

 

Mark - I don't blame you. It's one thing for the mint to do reverse proofs, vapor blasted and the like, but this just gets crazy. I sure hope PCGS doesn't go to such an extreme. They are already on the edge in my book with all their different types of slabs they offer.

 

Well, they did do Rick Harrison of Pawn Stars, lol.

 

Most of the offerings are exclusive to a bulk submitter who makes a deal for the label that only they can use

 

Heck, I just gather them 'raw' and with no labeling. Much easier, and more enchanting to touch a slender hunk of silver, rather than view it in a plastic tomb with a comical number grade........

 

NGC isn't doing anything that the grocery store chains have been doing for at least 50 years.

Chris

 

They should make the slabs where they light up. You could get them with different colored LEDs. Ones with wind up music boxes would be novel. Why stop at the label? The plastic rectangle is so 1980's. Who could resist a 2004-D Texas State commemorative quarter dollar in a Texas shaped slab? You could wind that bad boy up and have it play "Deep in the Heart of Texas".

 

They have taken it a bit far in my opinion.

 

The labels are bad enough. What gets me is slabbing and grading a coin minted day before yesterday.

 

$50 for the ultra 4k plastic that will NEVER scratch.....thats whats next.

 

We all have our opinions, but for NGC, I’m sure they are happy if it makes them money. I don’t see any long term collector value in the holders though. If I was going to spend extra money on plastic I would spring for a vintage PCGS doily or an NGC first generation black slab.

 

Probably makes them drool.

 

And of course do the same for each state (in correct proportional size) so that when you have all of them you can lay them out into a complete map of the US.

 

Collect the slab, not the coin. Or is it the other way around?

Here is the silliest one I've seen, an "autographed" Wyatt Earp label. What does Wyatt Earp have to do with a modern bullion coin? Absolutely nothing, but that didn't stop NGC from making it.



And don't forget Doc Holliday Got to round up the whole gang while we are at it. Come on NGC, give us the entire set of the Ok Corral.

 

I was at a coin show looking for PCGS slabbed coins to add to my 20th Century Type Set. I found one I would have liked to add to my set but it had a strange Teddy Roosevelt label. While I loved the coin and the price, I didn't like the slab, so I passed on it. If it had been in just a plain old PCGS slab I would have snapped it right up.

 

Don't give them anymore ideas lol

 

Was there any date significance associated with these? Birthday year? I have no idea though.