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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zaneman, post: 460902, member: 3970&quot;]Hallmark was the predecessor to PCI. Hallmark coins are typically conservatively graded, however most of the undergraded material has been cracked out and sent out to one of the big 4. Hallmark slabs look just like the green PCI holders, and they say hallmark in raised plastic at the top of the slab. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, typically 10 digit green PCI holders were conservatively graded, however lots of the material in the 10 digit holders has problems, and dealers have kept the ones that were liberally graded in their holders since many people think the coin would definitely grade the same at PCGS or NGC, which quite often is not the case. (sorry about the giant run on sentence)</p><p><br /></p><p>It is my understanding that PCI was then purchased, at which time they switched to a 14 digit green label, and then the gold label. Occasionally you see a gold label PCI holder that would actually cross, but I would estimately that a good 90% would not cross. I have seen a ton of cleaned, artifically toned, damaged, scratched etc coins in their holders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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