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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8327782, member: 66&quot;]The INS 6 is important and impressive.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t unique, that is now the second specimen.&nbsp; The first was pictured on page 169 in my book back in 2003.&nbsp; Yours has a lower serial number than the one I pictured.&nbsp; I don&#039;t own the first one, but I do know where it is. (I can&#039;t afford a proof 1849 half cent)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Coin Vault piece is NOT a grading service.&nbsp; It is also pictured in my book in the Miscellaneous section, pages 414 and 415.&nbsp; Coin Vault was a service from the late 1980&#039;s that would encapsulate coins for people who had photocertificate certified coins, of for added protection of coins.&nbsp; It comes in two varieties, the firs tfor photocertified coins where it identifies the company that did the certification and the grade THAT company gave the coin.&nbsp; The second variety just identifies the coin with no grade provided because they were not a grading service.&nbsp; This is explained in the text on the back of the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually they didn&#039;t.&nbsp; The Aston P O Box on the INS 6 slab was Charles Hoskins address at the time of his death.&nbsp; The Philadelphia PA PO Box was also Hoskins.&nbsp; Apparently after INS closed down in Washington DC, Hoskins moved to PA and took INS with him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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