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What is an ---80--- code on a PCGS Genuine coin??

keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
I was looking at some eBay listings and saw this Type 1 Dollar, so I zoomed in to see what the problems were and saw an unfamiliar "code" in the cert number. After checking here it I confirmed that PCGS doesn't list an 80 so I'm wondering what's up here. Any suggestions?? The coin's problems are clear enough but is it a labeling error, new code or something else entirely? Thanks in advance.

Al H.


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  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    I suspect it's a labeling error... or it's an extinct code, a custom code or it's an MS-80! image
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As Eagleguy said in this thread "Search is your friend".
    A search in this forum, and about 15 seconds, turned up the answer image


    Larry, you got it right, with one of your guesses image

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK, i didn't read the entire thread but from glancing through it the code is evidentally obsolete........................yet it never states what it was used to designate(although itseems it must have been whizzed/cleaned). i don't see the sense in not listing an obsolete code which still routinely appears on an insert. to my mind it's the equivalent of no longer grading coins F15 and then not listing that grade in the PCGS grades.

    thanks for the help guys, search is indeed our friend!!image
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    I guess it means generic genuine so it could be any of the new codes.

    That looks cleaned or scratched up.

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    Ed
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I guess it means generic genuine so it could be any of the new codes.

    That looks cleaned or scratched up.

    image >>



    Looks like it could also just mean that it's a genuine coin that is problem free. Seems like it was used on special inserts like these 1909 VDBs which just look well circulated but are not necessarily problem coins.

    1909 VDB Genuine code 80 on eBay
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Are you sure the 09 VDB on ebay was problem free?

    The seller says in the text:



    << <i>Here is a very neat 1909-VDB US Lincoln Cent in a PCGS slab. Why it was slabbed is a dumbfounding mystery. The coin is a VF or so and has some surface porosity. It was, therefore, slabbed as genuine and not graded. >>

    Ed
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Threads like this wouldn't be necessary if the problem was just spelled out on the label.

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  • DonWillisDonWillis Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    Code "80" is the old Genuine program. This is before we actually starting putting the reason code (91,92, etc.) on the label,

    The new Genuine program was started in late 2008.

  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭


    << <i>Code "80" is the old Genuine program. This is before we actually starting putting the reason code (91,92, etc.) on the label,

    The new Genuine program was started in late 2008. >>



    No wonder we can't remember what Code 80 meant... 2008? I can't remember what happened in 2010, are we really expected to remember something that happened so many years ago? image
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  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭


    << <i>are we really expected to remember something that happened so many years ago? image >>



    Luckily, we can come here and ask, and someone will help! image

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