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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 3005407, member: 59677&quot;][USER=22377]@ddddd[/USER]: &quot;Optimistically&quot;? Nice word choice... As we all know, you can ASK anything you want on eBay. Doesn&#039;t count until you complete a sale...</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to our contest</p><p><br /></p><p>Up is an interesting item. I bought this in 2014.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>First</i>, it is a VAM discovery piece (not one of those VAMs worth a lot of money, but still a discovery piece) - a photo of the slab is shown on VAM world - and it&#039;s a VAM found in 2010, so this happened WELL after it was slabbed around 1987 or 1988: <a href="http://www.vamworld.com/1890-O+VAM-1F" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vamworld.com/1890-O+VAM-1F" rel="nofollow">http://www.vamworld.com/1890-O+VAM-1F</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(When I bought it, it had a little VAM 1F sticker - I was pretty shocked to see my slab)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Second</i>, this is a large photocert slab, and one carefully designed (IMHO) around the ACG Patent (<a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US4878579" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US4878579" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US4878579</a>), which claims a 3 compartment slab:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This slab design only has two interior retention zones, one for the coin and one for the photograph and certificate.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to USPTO records, the Accugrade patent was originally assigned to a Robert M Paul of Meadowbrook PA.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Third </i>INGS... a PA business search find a 1987 company registration with a Robert M Paul of Newtown PA as the President/Treasurer [Strangely listed as still active]. FWIW,&nbsp; both Paul addresses are residences and the two towns are about 13 miles apart. So maybe they didn&#039;t have to work around the ACG slab patent.</p><p><br /></p><p>SampleSlabs shows two INGS - <a href="http://www.sampleslabs.com/ings.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sampleslabs.com/ings.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sampleslabs.com/ings.html</a> - black and gold names (I have examples of both, but no samples).</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a lot else is known about INGS.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Fourth</i>, value... the meat of our contest...</p><p><br /></p><p>An 1890O Morgan in MS63 is worth around $122 according to CDN&#039;s collector&#039;s price guide (see <a href="https://www.greysheet.com/coin-prices/item?id=7200&amp;CatalogId=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.greysheet.com/coin-prices/item?id=7200&amp;CatalogId=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.greysheet.com/coin-prices/item?id=7200&amp;CatalogId=1</a>), but auction sales run from $70 on up over the last 2 years. NumisMedia says $115 with no real change since 2010.</p><p><br /></p><p>So let&#039;s say it was worth ~115 in 2014...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]744465[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]744466[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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