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Message:: [QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 2097757, member: 59677"]Conder101's PCGS 1"Clear blue tinted plastic slab with coarse dot matrix printing on white perforated label. Green reverse, no hologram. (This is the type that was counterfeited) 1986-1989" PCGS 2"Hologram added to the reverse of the label. Label is of white paper with the tint being created by thousands of evenly spaced dots. The dots are only visible under magnification. The slab is truly different being actually a slab similar to PCGS 1 within a separate surrounding plastic frame. This two piece construction was done by PCGS as their logo is molded into the edge of the frame at the front lower right. The label is still on perforated edge paper but the perforation are much finer. Printing is from a finer dot matrix printer. Late 1989 maybe Sept - Nov." You can tell the 2 piece construction by GENTLY pushing a fingernail along the edge of the slab inside the outer ring. If you feel it start to separate, it's a PCGS2, otherwise it's PCGS4 (one piece). Also, lots of PCGS2s exist without the outer ring (broken off) and are thought to be PCGS1s - the paper and hologram are the give-aways PCGS 3 is the Doily - same as 2 with the doily label PCGS 4 is a single piece frame[/QUOTE]