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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3179159, member: 66"]Only picked up one slab, nothing really special or oddball about it, just a Dominion Grading Service Sample slab.  I'd find one other thing though that shocked me.  We normally say that Accugrade was the first grading service to slab coins, and either ANACS or INS was the first grading service.  Well that is true for the US, but the earliest slabbing and grading service that I know of was SAGCE, South African Gold Coin Exchange.  They began grading and slabbing coins in sonicly sealed hard acrylic holders in 1975.  But they only graded prof Kruggerands, and they graded using a 114 point grading scale (I thought it was 105 but it turned out to be 114.)  Well at the show in their book sale I found a copy of SAGCE's grading guide that explains their system!  It was published in 1980 making them also the second grading service to publish their grading guide ( ANACS "ANA" was first followed by SAGCE, NCI, and finally PCGS) "S100 A full and complete explanation of the S100 system for the evaluation of Proof Kruggerands incorporating a wealth of information about Kruggerands" I've only read part of it so far.[/QUOTE]