What makes an old holder?
Fishpro
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I draw the line at old holders not having a bar code. Any thoughts?
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If you require a lack of barcode on the PCGS regular slab then I guess you are stopping with the rattler. I generally include all the iterations of the old green holder (OGH). However, as time goes on I realize that sometimes I look at the first blue insert holders and think "that's old".
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With PCGS i tend to consider anything without the fading shade of blue to be old. As far as ICG it's the bar code on the front that makes them old. Anacs are old if they are small and white. With NGC to me old ones are BEFORE the large hologram on the back and the NGC under the barcode.
Of course this is just the way I look at them, since I have not been collecting long enough to have "REALLY OLD" holders.
I'd be okay with calling everything with a green holder (incl. rattlers) "vintage". Early blue holders, until 2005 maybe, are "older".
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Rattlers and fatties.
I guess early 2000's and back...
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Anything not currently being used by a TPG, I consider an 'old holder.'
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Pre-prong holders will soon be the old holders.
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NGC: Soap dish or green label for PCGS or extra long "-" on the PCI insert. Small white for ANACS.
NGC: NO line fatties PCGS: OGH and older.
5th generation for NGC last of the no line fatties, also 5th generation for PCGS last OGH style.
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