Cert Numbering Question

jmski52

I am completely baffled by the numbering on one of my coins. In 2008, I submitted a couple of sealed AGE 4-coin sets for grading.

The coins came back to me sequentially-numbered, I thought. When I received them back, I simply made a mental note that they were all sequential.

It turns out that one of them was numbered and labelled with a completely different numbering sequence that included the PCGS coin number, while the other 7 coins only had the cert number.

In addition, the other 7 coins were provided with a round washer, but the oddball coin had the newer "pronged" type of insert.

When I checked the cert numbers, sure enough - 7 of the coins were within the same 8 number sequence but when I came to the number where the 8th coin would have been in the sequence, the cert does not exist. When I checked the cert number on the oddball coin, it does exist.

Question - how could one coin be labelled and slabbed with a completely different label and washer when all of the rest of the coins in the same submission were numbered sequentially?

davewesen

I wonder if something went wrong in the slabbing process or the finalizer did not like it and they had to slab again, during time they were changing stuff?