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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2216470, member: 59677&quot;]I&#039;m a purist - to be a sample slab it must say &quot;SAMPLE&quot;. A promotional slab is one that is designed to promote a business (including the grading company) and may or may not say &quot;SAMPLE&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Compliments of Mad Marty&quot; is a promotional. &quot;Complements of Bowers and Morena&quot; is a promotional.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the actual coin is graded, the slab doesn&#039;t say &quot;SAMPLE&quot; and the back label doesn&#039;t match one of the know ACCUGRADE forms, rather it has the name and address of a coin dealer. So it&#039;s a promotional slab and not a sample.</p><p><br /></p><p>My collection, my rules <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, Accugrade had their own grading system, which is explained in the book and on the reverse of labels prior to this generation (where only the obverse of the coin was shown).</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess?&nbsp; Somebody handed over a roll of Ikes and a few $s and had them graded and slabbed to promote their business. Gave them out to their best customers as a reminder of who they are. Just like any other spiff.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW - and unfortunately dated since the author is no longer with us, you can see a couple ACG samples here: <a href="http://sampleslabs.com/acg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://sampleslabs.com/acg.html" rel="nofollow">http://sampleslabs.com/acg.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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