The NEW PCGS slabs are...

... not good, to say the least. I tried to find a thread about this but didn't -- maybe my searching skills are equally bad.

I know it's, "buy the coin not the slab" but these new two tone slabs look incredibly cheap to me.

I always liked the PCGS slabs because they had a consistent look, at least for the last few years.... oh well....

 

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What are you talking about? I have not heard of a new slab style.

 

I entered this thread expecting pictures...exited feeling cheated and empty.

 

Just the label has changed to the two tone color used in the secure plus submissions.

 

It's no that bad.

 

Sorry you felt cheated, had I bought the coin I'd have posted it. Instead now I'll look for an 'older' example.

I guess my thought is, "why change it?" It was a nice, soft blue gray color which obviously held the information about the coin. Now it's a deeper, sharper blue contrasting into white -- looking very much like an ANACS slab. It's just my opinion, maybe this isn't the right forum for it, I don't know...

 

Is the coin in the plastic that counts not the plastic itself. Honestly My favorite "slab" is probably the ACG Acugrade type. Is just a shame the TPG is so 3rd rate.

 

Simple....to help thwart the counterfeit slabbers.

 

Simple...........



.....regardless of whether we like it or not. We are part of an evolutionary existence (unless you are a member of the Texas school board, that is.)

 

It looks ok to me. Better the ones with portraits and signatures on them.

 

Yep, I will deliberately not buy a coin, even if it is a coin I really want if it is in a Moy or Mercanti-signed slab. That has to be 1 of the silliest things (and there have been quite a few) the TPGs have done.

The other great recent brainiac move was bringing back the black slab insert. By the way, how long did that craze last? It's not like anyone would have been able to guess that would be a dud from the get-go. Can you spell f-u-g-l-y?

 

Not that I'm a big fan of the black holder, but it was brought out to celebrate NGC's 25th anniversary and was only available for a limited time. I think it was from October - December of last year. So to answer your question, the "craze" lasted 3 months.

 

Simple: S-L-A-B C-O-U-N-T-E-R-F-E-I-T-I-N-G D-E-T-E-R-R-E-N-C-E

 

So all this time people have been lying to us telling us the color associated with a 25th anniversary is silver and, in reality, only NGC has known the truth, which is the real 25th anniversary color is black? I guess you're never too old to learn something new.

 

Well the very first NGC slab style was black. It only lasted about a month and was not popular at the time except with blast white silver coins or gold coins. Toned copper or silver coins tended to disappear in the holder. So anyway they scrapped the black holder. now today the old first Generation black holders are very rare and valuable. So anyway there was something of a ground swell of people saing they wished NGC still had the black holder for their silver or gold coins. Well to celebrate their 25th anniversary they gave the people what they asked for, black inserts that could only be used by collector society members for the silver and gold eagles, and the golden dollars. the two colors that it worked well on. (NGC authorized dealers were also able to put Morgan and peace dollars into the holders, collectors society members could not.)

 

:yes: B-I-N-G-O

 

What's different other than the color? Any counterfeiter with an inkjet can match that.