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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismania, post: 1909193, member: 28971&quot;]Sampleslabs.com (thanks tmoney....!) shows this as &#039;PCGS version 1.2&#039;, slightly different than, obviously 1.1, and is considered &#039;scarce&#039;.&nbsp; As far as there being a market, yes, there seems to be (obviously, given the amount of bidders, and winning bid).&nbsp; BUT, you don&#039;t&nbsp; see these being auctioned off by, say, Heritage or S&amp;B.&nbsp; It&#039;s a very thinly traded niche, if you hope to make your $$ back.&nbsp; Rarity or not, how many collectors are you going to see battling it out for this down the road?&nbsp; Sad thing is, when it comes time to sell it (especially if it&#039;s by the buyer&#039;s family), there is NO WAY this coin is going to bring anything close to this bid.&nbsp; It&#039;s an ungraded Roosie, for gosh sakes, and what do you think a B&amp;M is going to say about it, if it gets sold that way?&nbsp; Any B&amp;M is going to pay based on what it is, and get offered barely nothing, so I HOPE the buyer leaves VERY specific instruction as to where/who to sell it to.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me (and I am NOT trying to offend sample collectors, please understand that), it&#039;s a holdered, ungraded Roosie that someone paid $515 more than I would (and a long time ago, I DID collect a number of sample slabs, grouped in with those &#039;no longer in business&#039; TPG co&#039;s holdered coins....I still love to grab, when available, the old ANACS Photo &#039;slabs&#039;).&nbsp; I thought to myself one day, &#039;why am I collecting sample slabs....don&#039;t see them on any auction houses sites&#039;, if I croak, whomever survives me, will dispose of them like the rest of my collection, and on the samples, without knowing where to find that very small niche, it&#039;s bath time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still can&#039;t understand the fascination of collecting plastic, but, as the saying goes, &#039;collect what you enjoy&#039;, and if samples &#039;float your boat&#039;, more power to you.&nbsp; I don&#039;t consider my collection an &#039;investment&#039;, but, who here DOESN&#039;T hope their collection will increase in value?&nbsp; Unless the buyer of that sample sells down the line him/her self before their demise, this is an area where someone&#039;s inheritance could very well be worth nada, unless ultra specific instruction is left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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