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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2231928, member: 59677&quot;]Gen 3 is the doily (teach me to rely on, what&#039;s it called? oh, yeah, memory...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Gen 4 is the 1st of the green label slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two-piece slab within a ring is Gen 2. Your label is a match (Gen 4 has &quot;PCGS&quot; in small letters at the very top). Conder calls it:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;PCGS 2</b> This was the first attempt by PCGS to increase the security of their slabs. This is a two piece slab. The center part is the same small &quot;rattler&quot; shell seen on <b>PCGS 1</b> (note the four alignment pins in the corners around the coin). The second part is a plastic border thatwraps around the edge of the slab and forms the raised lip that now lets the slabs stack and interlock. Other security measures taken were the addition of a barcode to the front label and a hologram to the back label. This was also the last variety that did not have the companies initials on the front label. The front label is off white with a green tinge to it. This faint green is formed by thousands of tiny green dots that are only visible under magnification. This variety was used in Oct and Nov of 1989.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>See <a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&amp;threadid=222533" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&amp;threadid=222533" rel="nofollow">http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&amp;threadid=222533</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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