Does anyone know when PCGS began offering TrueView?

CoinJunkie

Thanks.

BECOKA

Not sure exactly but it seems to me it was around 2004 +/- a year

CarsonCityGold

I'm pretty sure the service was first announced at the PCGS Set Registry Luncheon at the Summer ANA Show, 2005, in San Francisco. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I edited my answer to 2005. My first email from Phil was 12-21-2005 with my first Trueviews.

CoinJunkie

Thanks again for the info.

lordmarcovan

Sometime shortly after Darkhorse quit posting here.

Edited to add, since you've got less than a year here- Darkhorse = Phil Arnold, PCGS' TrueView photographer. (Or used to- that was his old forum name.)

Perhaps there is more than photographer working for them, now. We Darksiders (World Coin Forum) guys are proud to claim that Phil once came from our midst. He occasionally lurks here under a different name but probably would prefer I keep that name under my hat. In a way, it's too bad he's gone low-profile. He was fun, and still young and exuberant in the old days. He's probably gone all professional now. Still, I can only imagine that some of the old Darkhorse antics still surface now and then around the big corporate PCGS monolith.

MacCrimmon

<< <i>I'm pretty sure the service was first announced at the PCGS Set Registry Luncheon at the Summer ANA Show, 2005, in San Francisco. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I edited my answer to 2005. My first email from Phil was 12-21-2005 with my first Trueviews. >>




Phil (TrueView) started in late April or early May. I submitted two raw Swiss coins on 5/9/2005, and they were imaged and graded by 5/17/2005.

JSsson

I recall it was some time in 2005 or so. PCGS doesn't seem to advertise this service much now though.

Cameonut

Mid 2005 is right. My first TrueViews were imaged in January 2006 - I waited about 6 months before submitting.

Goldbully

<< <i>Sometime shortly after Darkhorse quit posting here.

Edited to add, since you've got less than a year here- Darkhorse = Phil Arnold, PCGS' TrueView photographer. (Or used to- that was his old forum name.)

Perhaps there is more than photographer working for them, now. We Darksiders (World Coin Forum) guys are proud to claim that Phil once came from our midst. He occasionally lurks here under a different name but probably would prefer I keep that name under my hat. In a way, it's too bad he's gone low-profile. He was fun, and still young and exuberant in the old days. He's probably gone all professional now. Still, I can only imagine that some of the old Darkhorse antics still surface now and then around the big corporate PCGS monolith. >>



Lord, he posted in my UHR TrueView thread from March 2009....



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