Greetings everyone This is my new installment in my sample slabs articles. I truly hope you enjoy it, and it will be of some help to you. All the Best Alan http://samplecoinslabs.com/index.html/
Hi Everyone I sure would like to here from some of you sample slab collectors. All comments welcome Alan
Hey acan, I have been following your posts mainly because I have a sample that was given to me about 20 yrs ago and I was curious about it. I dont know if you run the sampleslabs.com website or if you're familiar with it but my sample is the pcgs 5.2.1 version, the 1964 Washington quarter. I was curious as to its value and rarity. The website indicates it was a relatively newly discovered sample (2004) and was wondering if you knew more.
Hi Cody I find most of my samples on ebay, I find sites that tend to sell a lot of samples and make shortcuts to my desktop. After a wile you can buildup several sites, and take a look at them every few days to see if any new samples have been added. Also places like The Cheap slab store sometimes have some I just bought a PCGS sample from them with a 1917 circulated Penney They made a set of eleven different dates for this sample, starting at 1918 or so I thought. Then I find this 1917 I have never seen or heard of before. So now I know it is a set of twelve. The best part is it only cost me $8.00. The more you hunt around the more you will find. Also coin forms like this on you can let people you are looking for samples and sometimes you can find them that way as well. Hope this helps Alan
Hi lightrain First thing first I do not run, or have anything to do with sampleslabs.com. It is an a great site and has a lot of info, and lots of amazing samples. The sample you are talking about the 1964 Washington quarter, is a real nice sample. I have never seen one for sale at all, not that I can remember in the past year. It may have been a dealer slab, or the production numbers were very low.. It was also the last year for the silver Quarters, there is the possibility some would have been cracked open and sent in for a regrade. The thing about samples especially the older ones is, that no records were ever kept so there is no way to trace it's history. By that I mean how many where made, not in all cases but in a lot I would think this a harder to find sample. Now as fare as value goes If you put it on ebay, who knows what it would fetch. I would guess and this is only a guess around $40.00 My suggestion is to hang onto it for a wile the prices are going up and in a few years who knows. Let me give you an example, a 1964 Kennedy can sell from thirty to sixty dollars, I just bought one and was able to get it for fifteen dollars but I just got lucky. The prices for sample slabs are all over the place rite now with the hobby becoming more popular. Hope this is of some help to you All the best Alan
Thanks for the info, definitely helpful. I didn't even know what sample slabs were until I saw your posts and articles. I love having something so rare, forty bucks is easy to come by, but not one of these slabs. Keep up the good work on those articles!
Sorry to take so long to replay Thank you for the nice comments I am so happy you enjoy my articles. All the best Alan
