Does PCGS keep records?

jeffnpcb

Does anyone know if PCGS keeps records on serial number breaks! ie: The number break where they start making designations on the different series, like FBL, FB, FT and type series of 1, 2 or 3!
I have some older slabs and some appear that they could make a FB or FBL. Also, Types on Franklins and Eisenhower dollars.

mercurynut

Sounds like a good question to ask HRH on his weekly forum.

Conder101

Since the serial numbers are assigned pretty much at random (You can't look at the serial numbers of two slabs of the same type and tell which one was slabbed first unless they are consecutive or very close to being so.) there is no "break" you can point to and say "This is where they started adding this designator.". Some designators have been used since the beginning or very close to the beginning, others were added later. FBL I'm fairly sure has been around since the beginning or close to it, the type numbers of the 1976 Ikes has been used since the beginning. I don't know if they do the types on the 1972 or not. PL came early but DMPL was not used until about halfway through the PCGS 4 variety (non-color stable green labels with large digit serial numbers that start at the left edge of the barcode) around 1992.