Hi all, I recently bought a 1976-S $1 Silver Ike that is in a PCGS slab. When I look at the back of the slab, I notice that it says "The Standard for the Rare Coin Industry" under a long hologram. Is this normal, or is something amiss? I have looked and looked and everything I am seeing on the slabs that have that phrase have a small square hologram instead of a long hologram. Any idea what generation holder this would be considered?
My best guess is that it’s a transitional variety holder. It is real and not super unusual. You are correct that the generic version of this holder does not have the writing below the hologram. Here is an example: https://www.pcgs.com/holders/Gen4.6 PCGS added a good resource with their museum of holders, but they don’t have everything pictured. Some of these were likely used in between the 4.6 pictured above and the 5.0 which has the text but also features a new DuPont hologram (maybe the 5.0 wasn’t ready yet).
@Conder101 literally wrote the book on slabs. If anyone knows he would - and if he doesn't know about it yet, I'm sure he'll want to. He keeps promising an update to his book
They put it up a few years ago. The way they labeled the holders doesn’t match up with Conder’s system. Plus some varieties are omitted (like the example from the OP). It does have holders that came after Conder’s book. It is a great resource overall. I’d still like an update from Conder though (his book is now more rare than many of the slabs described in it).
The label also has NASDAQ:CLCT. They just used a different label to change things up a bit. People do take notice of these things.
