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<p>[QUOTE="numist, post: 11367, member: 35"]PCI labels can tell the story of changes in their company. The earlier slabs were green and red (problem coins) with one type of font in the lettering. When graders (or something) changed, so did the appearance of the slab label, particularly in the font. PCI changed hands not too very long ago and the label then switched to gold.</p><p>During their early years, I sent in about a dozen coins to test the waters. I was pleased with most of the results. A few coins pretty much hit the mark and one or two didn't do as well as was hoped.</p><p>When the labels changed (still green but new font and format), I sent in another round and noticed that the grading was a little..."off". </p><p>Most of this group were high grade mercurys and morgans. The results showed that, especially the morgans were more loosely graded..the standards didn't match when compared to coins of very similar condition.</p><p>I haven't sent anything to them since they went gold but have seen a few at shows so nothing compare yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="numist, post: 11367, member: 35"]PCI labels can tell the story of changes in their company. The earlier slabs were green and red (problem coins) with one type of font in the lettering. When graders (or something) changed, so did the appearance of the slab label, particularly in the font. PCI changed hands not too very long ago and the label then switched to gold. During their early years, I sent in about a dozen coins to test the waters. I was pleased with most of the results. A few coins pretty much hit the mark and one or two didn't do as well as was hoped. When the labels changed (still green but new font and format), I sent in another round and noticed that the grading was a little..."off". Most of this group were high grade mercurys and morgans. The results showed that, especially the morgans were more loosely graded..the standards didn't match when compared to coins of very similar condition. I haven't sent anything to them since they went gold but have seen a few at shows so nothing compare yet.[/QUOTE]
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