If anybody has any sample coins do they achieve any real value . I recieved a slabbed one from a client (PCGS) . It is a connecticut state quarter MS00.
Rene - I think what you are referring to are sample slabs - not sample coins. The grading companies hand these out to collectors at coin shows for free in order to demonstrate their product. As for value - well that depends. Normally the coins in these slabs are not high grade and they are usually modern coins that do not have much value in and of themselves. I have heard of other coins like maybe a Morgan dollar being used in the sample slabs - but even those are examples of low value. What value these sample slabs have would be in the slab itself - and then usually only to those who collect these sample slabs. Some folks will collect almost anything. I know an advanced collector who collects all of the slab varieties issued over the years by the various grading companies. He even wrote & published a book on the subject. So bottom line is - no - they do not achieve an real value. At least not beyond a few dollars in most cases.
Rene, There is also a website devoted to them (believe it or not ) . http://www.sampleslabs.com/ Once caveat...the prices he mentions on that website are dependant upon finding someone actually willing to buy the sample slabs at that price. There are not a lot of sample slab collectors so getting anything over the 'few dollars' that GDJMSP mentioned would probably be very difficult.
GDJMSP, Stujoe, Thanks, I was suspicious about the value when I noticed a scratch on the coin but she told me she had purchased the coin from a union hall.Also I had never heard of a MS00 grade.Learn something new everyday, huh. Good thing I did not buy it.
