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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've checked their website and don't see any place to verify a certification. Maybe I missed it. I sent them an email last week with no response, and I just placed a call to them. Thanks. ed
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Can't seem to find one either.
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Moderator
 United States
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No; they've been through too many generations of ownership to have any records continuity. Are they back in business? Last I knew they were owned by David Lawrence and trading as DGS, and that iteration closed a while back.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I'm not sure if they are in business, but they seem to have a website and a machine answered when I called  Thanks for the replies. Ed |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Their website looks to have been updated in late september of 2012. Its hard to tell if theyve done anything with it since then but it does look like someones trying to bring it back.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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They are back or at least were for awhile. (There have been two different PCI owners since DGS closed down.) I turned up two new PCI slab varieties at the Michigan State Show last November. Label design very similar to the DGS labels, nothing like the older PCI labels. Same style obv label but with two different hologram styles on the reverse.
PCI has gone out of business the first time before the idea of on-line certificate verification came along, and I would imagine the current owner probably doesn't have access to all the records of all the previous owners so I wouldn't see it happening. Even if they did you still have the problem of at least four possibly five certificate numbering styles.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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No online database available to verify a certification. That's mainly why they never received the ebay "blessing". Same with SEGS. |
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United States
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Even if they did you still have the problem of at least four possibly five certificate numbering styles. Not to mention, "Would you really want to stake your rep on certifying the contents of those slabs?" |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Considering how bad some of the grading was under some of the owners, no I wouldn't. Quote:No online database available to verify a certification. That's mainly why they never received the ebay "blessing". Same with SEGS. Larry Briggs tels me that SEGS will soon have an on-line certificate verification. How soon is soon? I don't know. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Not to mention, "Would you really want to stake your rep on certifying the contents of those slabs?" That my friend is the LEAST of the problems. You pick a numbering scheme that allows you to ID your new-coke coins and put up a page on any old-coke request "We're sorry, that certificate predates our NEW and IMPROVED PCI and we are unable to verify the certificate. However, send it into us to review and re-encapsulate and mention code "NewCoke" for a $5 per coin discount" -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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OK so now SEGS has an online certification verification. Now how soon, or will ebay allow them to be listed as "certified"? |
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