Quick question about PCGS certification numbers

Mercfan

Here's another rookie question that I hope you veterans can help me out with: I take it that at the outset of TPGing PCGS assigned seven-digit numbers to the coins they slabbed, and that sometime later they shifted to assigning eight-digit numbers. Am I correct about that?

If so, am I correct in inferring that coins housed in newer PCGS holders but bearing seven-digit PCGS numbers have either been reholdered (with the original number retained) or regraded (with the original number retained)?

Are there any other ways in which PCGS-slabbed coins in newer holders can have seven-digit certification numbers?

Thanks in advance for any insight you can offer!

LindeDad

I think you only keep the orginal number on a reholder, not a regrade.

fcloud

They are currently using the number ZERO to start the series, so they are still using seven digit numbers. Don't be fooled into thinking these are regrades, as they could be, but they also could be freshly graded coins.

Russ

<< <i>They are currently using the number ZERO to start the series, so they are still using seven digit numbers. Don't be fooled into thinking these are regrades, as they could be, but they also could be freshly graded coins. >>



Yep. They're messing with our minds. Until recently if you saw a cert number beginning with a zero, it was a reholder of an old seven digit coin. Now it could be either a reholder or a freshly graded coin.

Russ, NCNE

DennisH

The last two batches of freshly-graded coins I got back from PCGS all started with a zero.

Mercfan

So those most recent batches bore eight-digit (the first one being zero) cert numbers?

I presume that would enable us to distingish between those recently graded coins and reholdered seven-digit coins originally housed in rattlers or OGHs? Or is that not so?

fcloud

reholdered coins will also start with zero as a place holder.

TorinoCobra71

<< <i>The last two batches of freshly-graded coins I got back from PCGS all started with a zero. >>



So did mine!

TorinoCobra71

bosox

And I just got a reholder where they put a zero in front of the old number.