Fresh from PCGS - what's up with these labels?

relayer

I got my submission from 3/25 back. The Vermont 25c I got in change came back MS67

I also submitted a Mt. Rushmore set, but they moved the variety and date.

robertpr

Why don't you send back the Vermont and inform PCG$ that it's really an AU coin that you got in change. Dump that baby quick before it grows a BIG FAT thumbprint! (from your local K-mart cashier that gave it to you, not the PCG$ grader!)

relayer

OK, I'll crack it out and spend it.

Anybody ever seen the date/variety swapped like this?

Okie

...and my confidence in the 3rd party grading services grows stronger and stronger.

TheNumish

Is PCGS going to stop putting the series and coin numbers on the holders? Notice your Vermont had it and the others didn't.

If they do stop I think it's a good think. To me that information is totally useless and don't know anyone that uses it.

braddick

<< <i>Is PCGS going to stop putting the series and coin numbers on the holders? Notice your Vermont had it and the others didn't. If they do stop I think it's a good think. To me that information is totally useless and don't know anyone that uses it. >>


That info. never was put on Modern Commemoratives. The Vermont is one within a Series (thus it has the number you mentioned).

I guess the labels are set to print the required info and if it won't fit in the first line it's then modified to allow it to be printed in the third.

-Nice hit on that "pocket change MS67"!

Conder101

The Salt Lake City dollar is the odd one. The other three are exactly like they are supposed to be. As Braddick said the modern commems have never had coin and series numbers on them and for all if the blue label varieties have always had the type listed at the upper left and the date underneath the grade. (The Classic commems come both ways depending on when they were slabbed. Early blue labeled one are the same as the modern commems, later ones have coin and series numbers like the Vermont quarter does.)

They may have changed the placement because Salt Lake City Olympics wouldn't fit but I would have expected them to abbrieviate Olympics instead. I believe they have done that in the past.

TheNumish

Thanks Braddick and Condor for setting me straight.

keithdagen

I've seen the Salt Lake variant of the label on some of the more recent commem issues, like Dolley Madison and the Washington $5 piece in the past.

relayer

Thanks Condor. I looked at some other old ones I had and see the SLC is not the norm.

I also have a $10 LOC that has it listed on the bottom, so I guess it depends on the length of the name.