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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 735104, member: 66&quot;]The true sample slabs are slabs given away by the grading services at coin shows which are intended to advertise the grading service itself or to show off a new change in their product design (New design, new label, new hologram etc).&nbsp; Similarly related slab types are advertising slabs which are used to promote a business, club or coin show and not the grading service itself.&nbsp; These are normally distributed by the clum, business or show and not by the grading service. And the Presentation slab which are given to people (usually invited) who attend a certain event or complete a particular project.&nbsp; An example of a presentation slab would be those given to the people invited and attending the PCGS FUN luncheon.&nbsp; If you didn&#039;t attend the meal the only way you could get one was to buy it from someone who did.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sample slabs do have a small group of avid collectors and as posted there is a website that specializes in them.&nbsp; I also covered them in my book.&nbsp; Cameron and I do not catalog them in the same fashion though&nbsp; I group them by what generation of slab design they are based upon and then by variations of the slab with in that group.&nbsp; Cameron give different variety numbers to what I would consider the same slab just because the slab has a different coin in it.&nbsp; He also does not track changes in the reverse design&nbsp; (hologram etc) so he can have different generations of sample slab cataloged under the same number.&nbsp; There are also case where he has obviously earlier slaba cataloged with later numbers than later slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some sample slabs are rare and highly desired, others are quite common.&nbsp; Typical price for a common sample slab is in the $3 to $5 range, but some of the rare ones have brought over $200 apiece.&nbsp; A couple pieces would probably bring much higher prices if they ever showed up.&nbsp; There has been the existance of a sample PCGS Regency slab reported but not confirmed. And one not even reported but which could in theory exist would be a sample NGC 1 slab, a sample Black NGC slab.&nbsp; If one of those turned up at auction it would definitely set records.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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