New PCI label?

littlewicher

I never seen this PCI label before. link

JeffinMich

That does look like a new one. Maybe the gold labels weren't going over too well. Bump this up for Condor101.

TomB

I think that service tier has been offered for some time although I don't know if they are still doing it. By paying a premium you could have your coin graded or designated by certain, well-known numismatists. In this case the insert appears to have been signed by Rick Tomaska, modern proof guru.

goose3

that might be an older one.
I remember seeing one some time ago with bill fivaz or jt stanton's sig in a similar manner on a variety.

anyone have the link to K6Az's page on discerning the difference between old and new green holders?

littlewicher

I also thought that it was Rick Tomaska's signature and thought I had gone crazy. He usually only deals in PCGS & NGC material. He probably wouldn't want to have any association with the "new" PCI, so it might be an old holder.

Conder101

That is an older slab. It was what PCI called their Signature series where for a extra fee the coin would be examined by a recognized expert in that particular series. For the older series attrigutions would be provided as well. I'm not sure of the actual starting date but it was circa 1996. Less than two months after the service began several of their experts started running advertisments in the trade papers (coin World etc.) stating that effective immediately they were no longer connected in any way with PCI. When I asked some of them what happened they explained that PCI was holdering the coins and placing their signatures on them but they were not sending the coins to them for examination! The experts never saw the coins being shiped out with their signatures (and reputaions) on them. The signature series slab almost immediately died. Total production time was about two months and since is was only part of their submittals, total slab production was probably lss than 15,000 slabs. Most of which have probably been cracked out.