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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7783125, member: 24314&quot;]kanga, posted: &quot;Did PCI exist in 1991 or had it already gone toes-up?</p><p>Apparently they were live at this time.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I worked there full time from 1990 to about 1996 or 97.&nbsp; Larry Briggs tried to buy the company around then.&nbsp; In 1998 or so I worked part time there and for a coin dealer.&nbsp; In 1999 I went to NGC. </p><p><br /></p><p>PCI was the first TPGS to slab &quot;detail&quot; coins (red label).&nbsp; Dealers loved them because in very many cases they could buy the coins cheaply and get them straight graded at the major services. </p><p><br /></p><p>PCI offered free coin conservation.</p><p><br /></p><p>World coins went into a slab with a blue label.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCI was the first TPGS to offer &quot;Signature Series&quot; slabs with coins graded and attributed by experts in the coin series such as Briggs, Oxford, and Stanton+.&nbsp; The labels were signed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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