Remember those aftermarket beans you could get for Accugrade slabs? Gold for perfect spelling, green for only one or two minor misspellings...
The only thing rare about the company itself is the number of coins that were assigned with grades that I agreed with or thought were in the general ball park.
I've purchased a few to bust out and resell. I actually really like the way the coins look with these holders.
I had a Seated Liberty Dollar in a ACCUGRADE F12 holder. Cracked it and sent it to NGC and it crossed at F15. I was pleased!
Seems even they can't decide based on the first photo, and the second, oh my, they missed the obvious double die attribution for the 26 half
Accugrade got one thing right in my opinion, and that was the separation of strike, surface, and wear categories. NGC does this with ancient coins, and I believe it would behoove TPG's to do the same with grades given to modern coins. It would eliminate a great deal of guesswork on the part of collectors trying to figure out which attributes figure into some nebulous number. Stars and pluses only confuse the issue further. But as Warren Buffet once said, if something is too complicated to understand, it's likely that someone doesn't want you to understand it.
Bstrauss, sorry I didn't answer you earlier but I'm at a location where the internet connection is spotty and dissappears for hours at a time. I think it is a very interesting slab. I've never seen one like that. It's a very early one I believe and I'm sure they didn't make many before they corrected the printing error.
No: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/GameStation-Soul-Sale-Satan-Gaming,news-6505.html Hey, Mr. Slab, no apologies needed - if this was your job and I was your boss I might have a claim on your time, but this is a hobby and we all steal minutes and seconds from other things for it... Except for the missing G, it looks like your ACG3: Serial number changed. Letters are now used for sixth and eighth characters. Letters of company name are tighter together and C in CONNECTICUT begins below AC. The s/n in your book is 94975H6P, so if the # part is sequential, they are under 1400 slabs apart.
