How do coins get pedigreed?

Longacre

I noticed in the most recent issue of Numismatic News that ANR was referring to certain coins as the "Eliasberg-Jung" specimin. How does a collection get "pedigreed"? I don't know if there are any specific rules. Can anyone help? Thanks.

tradedollarnut

Those coins were not pedigreed on the holders [other than perhaps Eliasberg or Norweb, etc]. That was just the auction company being respectful to their customer. Although it was a really neat set, it really doesn't have the stature required for people ten years from now to whisper in hushed tones "that's the Jung coin"!

relayer

PCGS will also pedigree most (but not all) of the top five Registry Set from each category.

However a coin that says "Bill's Coin" is important only to Bill.

RYK

I have been increasingly interested in pedigrees. It's cool when you can figure out where your coins were twenty, fifty, or hundred (or more) years ago. I recently had the opportunity to identify a coin in a dealer's inventory to be from the Eliasberg collection and point it out to him. It was quite a thrill for me, so thrilling that I almost bought the coin for considerably more than I had ever paid for a coin. I came to my senses with the satisfaction of having id'ed the coin.