Oh my gosh, this is actually really big news. They've always been very tight-lipped about that. I can't wait to see the data that comes from this. I just ran a couple of my coins to confirm - yes, it's true! I wonder what they are saying about it over on the NGC forums?
If I wasn't banned for no apparent reason I would check. This is big news. I wonder if it will become an industry standard. James
Very cool. I wish they showed auctions that the cert number may have been in so I can find more pictures(maybe better) that what I am currently looking at.
Thanks for pointing this out. Here are a few of mine: Who can beat my January 1990 as the oldest? One of my coins was missing the Date, likely my oldest:
A member over there says they noticed it "a few weeks ago." Meanwhile, in the past few days, NGC seems to think I'm a "new member" and sends me daily emails encouraging me to check out all the benefits on their website. I joined 7 years ago. I'll have to dig up my NGC slabs and look them up. Edit: looks like my oldest is 22 years ago. Interesting but I'm not sure what it does for me.
I did a quick run through of the NGC slabs I have, not looking at any I submitted or ones with the QR code on the label as I know those are recently graded. I suspected my oldest would be between three coins and I was correct. Interestingly, my oldest grade date was 1997, though it was re-holdered into a red edc plug slab, but the cert # when searched shows the original date and NOT the re-holder date. The second oldest is the same coin, different variety, still in the original holder, graded less than a year after the first one, but in 1998. I've always wondered when coins were graded so I love this. Oldest, but re-holdered Oldest in original slab
