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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 3123075, member: 59677&quot;]DCGS-</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is an actual production label with hologram...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]795085[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]795087[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Wayback machine has them from November 2001 through February 2004 and then various parking pages through 2013.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/digitalcoingrading.com/*" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/digitalcoingrading.com/*" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/*/digitalcoingrading.com/*</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Contact Numbers: </b>Voice 800-573-2993 and FAX: 954-747-3938</p><p><b>DCGS, Inc. </b>10256 N.W. 47th Street Sunrise, Fl. 33351 - which is an office suite building.</p><p><br /></p><p>Their sample is 1302376 - a Delaware 50SQ (MS67PL). But the Wayback Machine only caught the front, not the side or back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Initially, they only graded US Mint Statehood Quarters, &quot;assuring complete expertise and assurance in serving collectors and dealers involved in the fastest growing collectible coin category in the world!&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>In September 2002 they announced that in addition to all US Quarters beginning with 1838 Seated Liberty,&nbsp; they had added Cents (1856FE &amp; later), Nickels (1883 and later), ALL dimes, $2.5 gold (1834 and later) and $5 gold (1840 and later)</p><p><br /></p><p>AT NO TIME DID THEY INDICATE THEY GRADED HALFS like [USER=22377]@ddddd[/USER] &#039;s example!!</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2003 captured page has &quot;A Special Offer from Arthur Weinstein, President of Digital Coin Grading Service, Inc.&quot; at one point it was free collectibles with an anti-telemarketing service, then it was just the collectibles.</p><p><br /></p><p>The late 2003 and 2004 captured page has the same content as &quot;A Special Offer from Tom Seligman, Director of Digital Coin Grading Service, Inc.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>it wasn&#039;t cheap - list price seems to have varied between $9 and $24.95/coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Submission form: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020208005541/http://www.digitalcoingrading.com:80/new_page_1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020208005541/http://www.digitalcoingrading.com:80/new_page_1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20020208005541/http://www.digitalcoingrading.com:80/new_page_1.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, that&#039;s more than enough information to search at the Florida Business Search...</p><p><br /></p><p>Shows it was formed on 4/5/2001 and dissolved (failure to file) on 9/16/2005.</p><p><br /></p><p>Registered agent was Mr. Seligman and the President Mr. Weinstein.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2002 Annual report lists a Vice President, Ms. Seligman and presumably home address as the principal place of business (Apt 1001 is a give away)</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Weinstein is a fairly common name, although there is somebody of that name who published a numismatic article on one of the blogs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Seligman has better traces... in addition to running something called &quot;Distinctive Collectibles Gift Suppliers&quot; (DCGS), he has three patents</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US7134546" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US7134546" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US7134546</a> (2006 with a 2001 priority date) for a &quot;Coin holder and display device&quot; and you will say &quot;Wow, that looks familiar&quot;:</p><p><img src="https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US7134546B2/US07134546-20061114-D00000.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US8061512" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US8061512" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US8061512</a> for a &quot;Coin holding apparatus&quot;</p><p><img src="https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/98/bb/f3/f993c0d6d653fe/US08061512-20111122-D00003.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>and</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US8177057" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US8177057" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US8177057</a> for a &quot;Coin display methods and apparatus&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/21/e9/bf/9ffca7f995b314/US08177057-20120515-D00000.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>If you know anything about patents, the diagrams are just illistrations, the meat is in the claims. In the &#039;057 patent, the first claim is &quot;1. A coin storage apparatus, comprising: a member having a planform that is associated with a particular state of the United States, wherein an opening in the member is sized and configured to receive a 1997 U.S. quarter; and&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>(My invention, of course, is sized for a 1998 quarter and so doesn&#039;t infringe)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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