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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 41, October 9, 2016, Article 8

NEWMAN PORTAL ADDS SAMPLE SLAB UPDATE

The latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is the Sample Slab Update Newsletter. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report. -Editor

Sample Slab update #7 The explosion of third party grading in the last generation has created a market for various slab types, as the grading services periodically update their holders and occasionally issue “special edition” or sample holders as well. Sites such as SampleSlabs.com catalog several hundred sample slabs (typically issued as a promotion when a holder modification is introduced), documenting the evolution of various grading firms and their holders over the last 30 years. PCGS themselves have published “The PCGS Museum of Coin Holders.”

David Schwager has issued the Sample Slab Update Newsletter since February 2015 and these are now available on the Newman Portal. The inaugural issue mentions a chocolate Franklin Half dollar (presumably not a U.S. Mint emission) in a PCGS slab, while the latest issue (August 2016) covers developments from the ANA convention, such as the recently PCGS-issued “Kangaroo” slab. The ANA further featured an informal enclave of sample slab collectors, perhaps the forerunner of a specialty club dedicated to this corner of the hobby. The Newman Portal acknowledges David Schwager for sharing the Sample Slab Update Newsletter with the collecting public through NNP.

Link to SampleSlabs.com:
http://www.sampleslabs.com/

Link to PCGS Museum of Coin Holders:
http://www.pcgs.com/holders

Link to Sample Slab Update Newsletter on the Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/514437

The Newman Numismatic Portal is not just about digitizing dusty 100-year-old tomes. It's about creating an inclusive archive of all numismatic content including the latest publications. This helps ensure the preservation of this content for future generations of collectors and researchers. Online content is often the most vulnerable. Clubs, companies and their web sites come and go over time, but the Internet Archive and the Newman Numismatic Portal are built to last centuries or more, with backup sites around the globe. -Editor


Wayne Homren, Editor

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