Pet Peeve #26: Slab label abbreviations

MrEureka

Sometimes I have to shake my head. Does PCGS actually expect everyone to know that “P Peso” is short for “Pattern Peso”? And it’s not like they didn’t have room to spell it out.

JohnnyCache

Companies everywhere are cutting back

bidask

I agree

TwoKopeiki

Nice P Peso

coinkat

And speaking of abbreviations... MrE's observations are quite timely.

I was looking at another thread on the US coin forum- there were several error coins- And Planchet was abbreviated to just Plan. I nearly left a comment that all of these error coins have something in common in that the Plan somehow was not followed... then it sunk in and I came to my senses. The price of numismatic humor is simply beyond my pay grade.

RSP

LOL Thanks for sharing your sense of humor.

ajaan

I thought it stood for Pretty Paso

Boosibri

Looking forward to hearing 1-25

Sapyx

The "abbreviations" that trigger me are more along the lines of PCGS/NGC unilaterally coming up with abbreviations for currency units, when there are perfectly usable currency unit symbols already in place.

Example: using "P" for "Penny" in the British predecimal system. The long-standing abbreviation for "penny" is "d"; thus, "sixpence" is abbreviated to "6d". Everyone who collects sixpences would know this. But the TPGs both use "6P". Which isn't just wrong, it's misleading, because "P" is the abbreviation for the decimal penny.

Strangely, somebody seems to have told PCGS that "D" is the correct abbreviation for Australian pennies, thus PCGS-slabbed Australian sixpences are labelled "6D". But British sixpences are still labelled "6P". NGC is consistently wrong, using "6P" for both the British and Australian coins.