Born On Date

stujoe

Has there been any thoughts of putting a Born On Date on slabs...or, more precisely, a Slabbed On Date. I can think of a few reasons why tis would be a benefit to the collector to know when the coin was slabbed and it certainly would not be difficult to do.

homerunhall

The no date of certification decision was a decision we made very early on. At the time (1985/86) ANACS was dating their certs and there were different prices for different dated certs. The idea of PCGS was to create a grade you could count on now and in the future, hence no certification date.

Practically speaking, there have been a few major changes in our holder design, so you can kind of date the old holder coins. There is, however, no way to tell the date of grading for a fresh holder coin as it may have been an old holder that was recently sent in for reholdering.