Does PCGS (and other companies) have it upside down?

solid

Shouldn't the coin, the most important element, be at the top?



I wonder if they would do this at the customer's request.

Any advantages/disadvantages to displaying them this way?

Ken

nederveit

excellent quarter

solid

Yes, I wish it were mine. I was hunting through photos here looking for
a slab pic to manipulate and found this. No idea where it came from - that's
why I blurred the serial number!

RegistryCoin

Kinda awkward, but only probably due to the "newness" of the layout. "Fear of Firsts"...

oreville

No good. Everytime a dealer holds a slab to hand to a customer, the weight being top heavy will cause the slab to fall out of his/her hand crash to the floor and bust wide open and end the coin's term as a PR-69DCAM!

Now silly, imagine a box of these slabs with the weight all at the top. Every box will fall over on its side.

lordmarcovan

It'd be a little harder to read the label when you had a boxful of slabs, maybe...

Conder101

The state quarters with the state flags on the labels are done that way. When held so the text label is upright it is below the coin and the Washington head is upright above it.

earlwbollinger

Usually when you're scanning (riffling) through a box of slabs, you look at the labels, until
you get a hit, and then you pull it out and examine the coin more closely.
If you don't like it, it goes back in the box, and you continue looking.
Thus labels at the top makes sense.

numonebuyer

<< <i>It'd be a little harder to read the label when you had a boxful of slabs, maybe... >>



I think that is exactly why it is at the top. Obviously, this is just the opposite for a collection that is meant to be displayed and not stored in a slab-holding box.

Good thread.

wallstreetman

Photo shop!

DHeath

I always wished the grading info were small and unobtrusive, and on the bottom reverse. I'd prefer seeing the coin first. The grade and guarantee are useful, but they're not the first thing I want to see when I pick up the slab. It's like some kind of giant advertisement. JMO

vega1

Just turn the slab over to see the reverse.... viola!

Shamika

The label identifies the coin, thus it should be on top. Sort of like putting the title of a book on the first page.

paigowjohnny

I like it...returns the focus to the coin and not on the freaking label...

Theop

As Condor101 mentioned, this is already being done.



I don't see anything special about the slab which would prohibit any other sized coin from being slabbed like this.

coinandcurrency242

nice coin. It looks like a coin from a museum with all the details usually below it.