Is This PCGS Label Legit?

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The label looks white. I messaged the seller and asked if it was just the angle of the light. He said the label is a dark white. The certification number matches, but I haven't seen an all white PCGS Label before. Legit?

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The best person to answer your question would be Conder101. He has made a complete study of all the insert designs from most of the grading services.

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It loos legit to me, just the exposure looks off.

Try this link: http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=222533

 

The seller said it was a dark white label. Have you seen one of those?

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It looks like an overexposed scan. The slab is fine. The slab generation is a PCGS 13 introduced around February, 2002. I do not know when they were discontinued, but I have in my notes that they likely went through November, 2004. Conder101 wrote the definitive book on TPG slabs and I use it extensively.

 

You mean, a label like this??



Folks should really familiarize themselves with the different slabs and labels that PCGS has used since 1988.

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=222533

Here's one for NGC:

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=220185

 

Sorry, but when a seller specifically says the label is white, I question it. We all know the blue labels.

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I take it that's what the OP thought, and asked if it was. The reply is that it's "dark white", whatever that is.

 

You are right on. That's why I started this thread. I thought it was overexposed. I asked the seller for more info on the true color, and he said dark white.

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I have never heard if PCGS plastic is UV transparent or not. No big worry as UV won't bother the coin much , but it could bleach he paper if it was and the slab was in a shop window for a period of time. However, that mentioned, I find it hard to imagine the blue saturation of the photo doesn't have something to do with it.

 

http://www.sampleslabs.com/pcgs.html

Check out this page of PCgs holders some do have a whitish color to them, especially example 6,6.1 but I have actually never seen one that is white. It could also just be their exposure too on this page but the other styles seem true to color

 

Is there a book available? All I have in my kit are photocopies of a couple PDFs gleaned from the Internet a few years ago.

 

I sure wish Conder would come out with the next edition , but there's always the fear the Chinese crooks would just fix their mistakes .

 

I would think if that was the black text would appear faded.

 

I have a copy of the first edition sitting on my desk as I type this, but it was published in 2003 and was likely printed in very limited numbers. The book is over 400-pages and is well worth buying, if you can find one.

 

What is the actual title of Condor's book?

 

Third Party Grading/Certification Services & Slab/Certificate Varieties by Conder101, 2003. I do not recall what the book cost, but Conder101 was gracious enough to list me among the contributors, wrote a short note in the book and included a CD of the book with purchase.