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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1451843, member: 66&quot;]Stanton worked for PCI, as far as I know he was never an owner.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No they were two different companies.&nbsp; Before they went to the small size shells (shells and equipment purchased from HALLMARK) they used a larger photoslab and went by the name Photo-Certified Coin Institute.&nbsp; INS started operations in 1975 with photocertificates and went to a hard plastic photoslab in 1989.&nbsp; INS finally ceased operations in 1997.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Owner Brian Beardsley died around June of 2007 just a few months after Stanton joined the firm.&nbsp; Beardsley&#039;s wife tried to run the company until around Nov when it finally closed its doors.&nbsp; The company assets were sold in February of 2008 and DGS opened around August of that year.&nbsp; DGS did their regular slabs but they also did a signature series with recognized experts identifying varieties and grading their series of expertise.&nbsp; This was the fourth attempt at a special signature series slab.&nbsp; PCI had attempted it twice, once under the original owner and once under Beardsley and his wife, and SEGS also did it briefly.&nbsp; Rick Snow may have been one of their expert graders, I don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>DGS closed its doors on August 3rd, 2010.&nbsp; The company assets were sold in September of 2010 and the company was run as PCI for about a month.&nbsp; During this time green label 10 digit serial number slabs were produced and were being sold on eBay as the original green label 10 digit serial number from back in 1989.&nbsp; They were close but one of the fonts was wrong.&nbsp; PCI then closed again and the owner was looking for a new buyer but as far as I know it never re-sold.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Be careful here there are three different green label holders.&nbsp; The originals with 10 digits in the serial numbers are good as are the 14 digit serial number slabs that followed.&nbsp; But the 9 digit serial numbered slabs have a reputation for being overgraded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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