PCI Morgan On Ebay

The green labels are the older style while the last generation from PCI's downhill slide into oblivion used gold labels. PCI's grading on the older slabs was generally fairly decent for classic coins but you will still occasionally find a head scratcher

There are now FIVE generations of green label PCI slabs. There were three generations when that website was created. In 2009 PCI went out of business and the shells and equipment were sold to David Lawrence Rare Coins and they opened DGS (Dominion Grading Service) with the same shells. DGS lasted about a year and a half and went out of business in August of 2010. In Sept the shells and equipment were sold again and the new owner resurrected PCI. Now here is the kicker, he brought back the green labels with the 10 digit serial numbers, and the "ball and stick" a in mintage and the long hyphen between the date and mintmark all just like the first green PCI slabs (PCI 5). These slabs promptly showed up on ebay being sold as the "Old 10 digit serial number PCI slabs from back when they were strictly graded." And of course the grading was NOT accurate. As you noticed they can be spotted because the use the wrong font on the 6's and the 9's. Well supposedly that PCI only lasted for a month before he closed down. he then started trying to sell the shells and equipment once again.

PCI came back yet again last September. Once again they are using the green borders and 10 digit serial numbers, but this generation of green PCI slab also has a barcode on the front label. There may also be a version of this slab that has PCI down in the lower left corner of the label similar to that used by DGS.

I still need an example of both (all three?) of these green border slabs. The first one is going to be hard to come by though because of the overgrading on the slabs. They tend to go way to high whenever one does show up because people tend to pay based on the label grade and not the actual grade.

I will have to let others answer that question. I do not buy slabbed coins so as a general rule I don't pay much if any attention to the grading of the coins they contain. I have heard both good and bad about the grading of DGS. In any discussion about the grading ability of a company there will always be some opinions from some that "it can't be good because if it could actually be that grade it would be in a PCGS or NGC holder." They don't actually judge the grading of the coin, they just dismiss it as being substandard because it isn't in a "better" holder.

The few DGS slabs I looked at - not enough to form a broad opinion - were all quite reasonable. Moot point as regards crossing over, which is IMO a fool's errand.