What Does Specimen Finish Mean On A Slabed 2007-D Sacagawea Dollar?

Make your own slab.

**just note, the pics are not of the coin,but the slab:)

Thanks greasyfingers, but I honestly don't collect much other then LWC. I have a membership with PCGS, I've only had 4/5 coins graded so far. I occasionally pick up random things in the half off, dollar, or .50 cent bin for fun. So when I'm out of my wheats ..I can go back to these to research. I had never heard of this grading company and I thought it was interesting, ( as a design)
But the grade was way higher then anything I've ever owned, so I assume it's not correct.

@ jimbuck...just so that I'm clear on this...you don't like/trust this grading company..?......

I didn't mean to offend anyone, just asking a few questions. I'm certainly not debating, I apologize if that how it came across.

Thanks, yokozuna. It clearly isn't MS 69..and now ..who knows maybe not even a real coin...knowing this, I just have to break it out ( it's not worth anything anyway ) IT LOOKS TERRIBLE ..reminds me more of " Chucky" in the older scary movies. Lol

You might have not been so bad if it was the older label but that's a newer label. IGS went out of business sometime after 2000, and after round 2009 another company popped up with the same three letters. First one was independent grading service, the 2nd copycat one was called international grading service.
The old style holders from independent were rigid much like the top companies use, the newer international ones are a cheaper thinner weaker plastic. They tried harder on the independent version labels to be taken seriously while the newer international labels they just put on the labels whatever they think might suckered someone into giving up some money. It's basically a different company trying to use a closed companies logo recognition to give itself validity. But there's a reason independent coin grading service closes right, it just wasn't up to par. International grading service is even less up to par.

"Specimen finish" was a term from the 1970s for coins that had a proof like appearance of higher quality, other countries might have latched on to this term, I don't know for sure, but first time I'm seeing it used modernly. This was the term used before "prooflike" became common to describe it.

IGS also grades baseball cards and casino tokens which is why it has the reputation that it will slab anything and give it a grade. Otherwise is a low tier grading company that should be treated as like you're buying a raw coin because they over grade like the other low tier or "basement graders" do. Maybe authentic but not sure if they even give it that much thought before slab bing a coin to be sure the coin is authentic because their grading is usually far enough off it makes you question if they even looked at it before slabbing. Buy the coin, not the slab regardless of the grading company, it's an opinion, they aren't always right, even the top tier companies.

By Specimen finish they mean the satin finish used on the mint sets from 2005 to 2010.

I believe the Specimen finish that Big Kingdom was referring to were the Specimen sets issued by Canada. The US hasn't officially issued any Specimen finish coins, but some recent US coins have received that designation from the TPG's. Usually for things like the nickels from the Jefferson and Botanical gardens sets. Possibly some of the special finish ASE or hockey pucks. Over the years they have called some of these by various names. For example the nickels mentioned have been called Matte-proof, SMS, MS, and now SP (Specimen).