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Sheldon Overton Baby Valued Member United States 179 Posts	Posted 05/10/2017 3:43 pm So I may be taking a look at a big collection of coins with mostly early PCI holders. These are the old green, 10-digit labeled PCI holders. Obviously each coin is different but can anybody attest to how accurate these usually are? Report this Post to the Staff

Broken-Coin Pillar of the Community United States 1812 Posts	Posted 05/10/2017 6:16 pm In the past (over 15 years ago) I had submitted many coins to both PCI (when they used the green Labels) & SEGS as the top two were to expensive to slab coins valued under $100 each. When ebay changed their listing policy on slabbed coins, I crossed over a number of coins from both PCI & SEGS to ANACS, and both companies were on par with ANACS... Why ebay allowed ANACS to be an acceptable/reputable Grader and not the other two is anyone's guess, but I'm guessing money has something to do with their decision.. Report this Post to the Staff
acloco Pillar of the Community United States 3540 Posts	Posted 05/10/2017 7:36 pm Red label = problem coin. Gold label = may or may not be graded correctly. Green label, 10 digit - usually ok, but, examine each coin on own merit. Personally, I look for the green holder coins. Also, there can be some wild toning in PCI holders. Terminal black = terminal black though! Report this Post to the Staff
Dual-brain Valued Member United States 404 Posts	Posted 05/10/2017 8:11 pm The white core PCI holders sometimes makes great purple and red toning Report this Post to the Staff
paralyse Bedrock of the Community United States 12057 Posts	Posted 05/10/2017 8:37 pm I will mostly concur that the Green PCI are the best of the lot, but as always, grade the coin yourself, don't go by the slab. The newer PCI holders are about as good as NNC, i.e. the slab grade is like playing roulette with a grade wheel numbered PO1-MS70. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse 05/10/2017 8:40 pm Report this Post to the Staff
kanga Pillar of the Community United States 5825 Posts	Posted 05/10/2017 9:24 pm Quote: Why ebay allowed ANACS to be an acceptable/reputable Grader and not the other two is anyone's guess, but I'm guessing money has something to do with their decision. The ebay requirement is that the TPG has an online accessible database of their slab numbers. Originally only PCGS and NGC met those qualifications. Later ANACS spent the time and money for their database. SEGS and PCI has never done that hence that are not acceptable to ebay. But as TPG's they were considered acceptable with the caveat that it's recommended that they be sight seen. Report this Post to the Staff
BStrauss3 Pillar of the Community United States 4591 Posts	Posted 05/11/2017 09:13 am Also make sure it is a GENUINE PCI green label, not the 2012 fakes. The give away there is the microprinted box. It's not a thin black line. On the old PCI slabs, it's actually the letters PCI repeated endlessly in about 1-2 pt type. On the fakes, it's just little blobs from copying the old label. -----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/ Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 05/11/2017 10:37 am Quote: The ebay requirement is that the TPG has an online accessible database of their slab numbers. Originally only PCGS and NGC met those qualifications. Later ANACS spent the time and money for their database. SEGS and PCI has never done that hence that are not acceptable to ebay. SEGS did create the database that ebay wanted, why ebay has not allowed them to be listed since then I do not know. Report this Post to the Staff
edweather Pillar of the Community United States 7375 Posts	Posted 05/11/2017 12:04 pm How 'bout the really old holders http://www.ebay.com/itm/TETRICUS-I-...STRK:MESE:IT Edited by edweather 05/11/2017 12:05 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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