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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1431914, member: 66"]I answered this question on the PCGS edgeviews somewhere yesterday.  Basically the PCGS edgeview was first used back in 2007 but only for the President dollars and then in 2009 for the NA dollars as well.  About eight or nine months ago they began using them for all submissions at the PCGS European office.  They started using them for denominations other than the small dollars at the US office around the first of this year and they are slowly being phased in as existing stocks of the older inserts are exhausted.  Just as NGC did several years ago with their edgeviews. The solid green labels actually started with the PCGS 3.5 slab in Dec 1989.  This was a very short lived transitional slab using the last of the "Slab within a frame" shells and the labels we became familiar with with the PCGS 4 slabs.  These early green label slabs can be found in a multitude of colors because as Doug said the pigments in the ink were not colorfast and broke down over time and with exposure to light.  These early green labels can be recognized by their large font serial numbers that start at the left edge of the barcode.  In mid 1995 they solved the color fastness problem and created PCGS 5.  These lasted until Nov 1998.  they can be recognized by their smaller font size in the serial number and the serial number starts well to the right of the left edge of the barcode.[/QUOTE]