Old PCI Bust Half

habaraca

Anyone have any information on this slab?
Tried to research serial number for age etc. but found nothing.....
Anything you have will be helpful..
Thanks Phil

U1chicago

1986-1991 for these photo certificates per Conder. And there are several generations in that time range.

This thread has the comment from Conder:

https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=187172

Zoins

Good info by Conder101 there:

@Conder101 said:
It is a PCI slab. PCI stood for Photocertfication Coin Institute and was originally owned by Chattanooga Coin. These photoslabs were used from 1986 to 1991 and come in four generations of slab. I listed this as PCI 1 but later determined that it was the second generation issued. It was used from 1986 to 1989. In 1991 PCI purchased the supplies and equipment of the now defunct HALLMARK grading service. The new small size PCI slab with the clipped corners debuted at the ANA show in Chicago that year. They also issued sample slabs in the new holders that are now some of the most desirable sample slabs. It did not have a coin in them but used images of coins from the Garrett collection being sold.

The original photoslab shells were used under license from Accugrade.

habaraca

Nice THANKS

astrorat

Your slab is the second of four varieties of the PCI photoslabs. The slabs are getting harder to find, especially with type coins encapsulated. And ... the O.106 variety is an R3.

johnny9434

I havent seen one of them in ages. Thanks for sharing

ricko

Interesting old slab... Used to see them once in a while at the larger shows in the PNW....Cheers, RickO

Raybo

I cracked my example because it had a bit of verdigris, in my case the grading was very conservative by todays standards.

thefinn

That is a PCCI slab, not PCI. PCI took over Hallmark with the typically sized slab with the corners notched off.

thefinn

PCI

BStrauss3

@thefinn said:
That is a PCCI slab, not PCI. PCI took over Hallmark with the typically sized slab with the corners notched off.

Nope & Nope...

PCCI became PCI when they bought the Hallmark assets out of bankruptcy and stopped using the two-compartment photoslab.

YOUR PCI slab in the post above is MUCH MUCH later. That generation is after the first wave of fraudlent green label slabs, after the sale to DLRC and a brief time as DGS, after the Delauniversita fraud FPG, etc. Somebody - I haven't been able to trace a name yet - tried to "revive" PCI in 2011/2012 with two version of the label you show. The high cert# on the 2012 coins seems to be in the 10-20,000 range. Then they moved on to the tracks&bullet train label and finally seem to have died (again) in the last year (website is defunct)

Insider2

@U1chicago said:
1986-1991 for these photo certificates per Conder. And there are several generations in that time range.

This thread has the comment from Conder:

https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=187172

NOTE: I joined PCI in TN 1990. They had already bought the Hallmark slab and were not using this type any more. So Condor's info should be updated to 1986-1989. Further research by anyone in TN who knows Mark Powell, their Senior Grader may pinpoint the dates even more accurately.

Insider2

@Raybo said: "I cracked my example because it had a bit of verdigris, in my case the grading was very conservative by todays standards.

ALL GRADING WAS VERY CONSERVATIVE by today's standards. AU's were still AU's in '86.