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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ddddd, post: 2744759, member: 22377&quot;]For those that collect sample or promotional slabs, have any of you seen this one before?</p><p><br /></p><p>What is the correct classification, promotional holder?</p><p>Is it in the sample book yet? [USER=33103]@Davidschwager[/USER] [USER=59677]@Burton Strauss III[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is some info from [USER=66]@Conder101[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;About a year before PCI went under, in order to try and improve their reputation in the market, PCI hired J T Stanton as their new President. one of the programs that he instituted was a return of the Signature Series slabs. The idea was to have a stable of experts in many different series (J T did Cherry Picker varieties). Coins submitted for the Signature Series would be sent to the expert for their opinion and any die variety attribution. They would then sign the slab label and return the coin and label for encapsulation. (This was in contrast to their original Signature Series slabs where PCI had the labels pre-signed. They would just send the coin, get it back, combine it with a pre-signed label and slab it. They got in trouble back then when they decided to speed up the process and not bother to send the coins out but just do the work in house and use the already signed labels. Stupid move because when the experts found out what they were doing the took out large ads in the coin magazines announcing that they n longer had any connection with PCI.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This time it seemed to be working better, but with the death of the owner, the eventual firing of J T Stanton as President, and the financial problems that PCI was having they stopped paying their experts for their services. A few months later PCI folded.</p><p><br /></p><p>This second series of Signature Series slabs comes in three different varieties with yellow, blue, and brown labels. I determined what order they were issued in but I don&#039;t have that data in front of me.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]627287[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]627286[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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