Some find coins but I found the slab

[WilliamBoyd]

Some find coins but I found the slab

I found this item while walking up a road in the hills near where I live.
It was laying near an old automobile wreck.

It is a graded coin holder known as a "slab" for an 1897 silver dollar.
The initials "ICG" is the Independent Coin Grading Company.
Looks like somebody cracked it open and removed the coin.

 

[myfantasia1]

Cool. You just never know what will show up

 

[ivan salis]

might have been a looted coin collection --look about they might have ditched the non silver coins nearby say cents too lazy to worth that hard for a cent

 

[UTcoinshootR]

Some paranoid tweeker probably thought it could be tracked. I bet he ruined the coin.

 

[allen]

think id rather have the coin
that was in the holder

 

[rogues71]

i would swing around the area you found the slab you never know what people drop

 

[hammong]

Old auto wreck, $250-300 coin broken out of it's slab. Sounds like a crime scene. Odd as it may sound, might report it to the police to see if anybody reported it stolen (the coin, and/or the car).

Greg

 

[nova]

Most likely stolen if the loot was resold in the slab it could be traced on the serial # on the slab. I don't think a collector would do that expecially that high of a grade 65

 

[ivan salis]

if a theif were to jack a coin collection * the first thing would do is get the coin collection to a out of the way "safe spot " to deal with it --- the first thing they would be to do get it out of its "IDible" serial # 'ed holder--- ( that way it can not be positivily IDed as the stolen coin since one coin looks like another once outside its "serial #ed container") so they can then turn it in as "scrap silver" at melt value or take it to a coin shop to sell as "gramps old silver coins he left me " -- the crooks would go after the high value gold and silvers -- often the lesser coppers and such would be chucked in a hole and buried or thrown aside most likey -- that spot if its in a out of the way place might have been used in just such a way.--the car might be a stolen car used in the robbery and torched afterward . --fairly common trick used by pro crooks so that their cars and car tracks do not get IDed at the scene of the "crime"

 

[Mackaydon]

I've heard that a few people crack open their slabbed coins believing they can get a higher grade with another grading service.
Don....

 

[michigan michael]

I feel sorry for the kids that swiped that from their dad for spending money!
~MM