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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 300779, member: 66&quot;]What happens when you use the wrong code?&nbsp; Well sometimes when it is obvious the folks at PCGS correct the problem and change the code.&nbsp; Sometimes they don&#039;t catch it and the slab can come back as the wrong variety or date/mint combination.&nbsp; For example on the PCGS board there is a person who has a great fondness for 1964 accented hair Kennedy halves.&nbsp; He cherrypicks and submits a lot of them.&nbsp; One day he decided to see if PCGS was actually confirming that the coins he sent in really were accented hair.&nbsp; So he sent in a NON-accented hair piece with the PCGS number for accented hair.&nbsp; Not only did it come back as accented hair, but as a PF-69DCAM, the finest known accented hair Kennedy</p><p><br /></p><p>As for how the numbers are assigned, for the PCGS I learned from bits and pieces picked up on the PCGS board and from comments by David Hall and other PCGS employees in their replies to questions and speculations about how the numbers are assigned.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for NGC. once again comments on their forum and from David Lange.&nbsp; NGC is much more forthcoming on company information than PCGS is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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