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When was the Hallmark grading service in operation?

291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,594 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Why did it cease operation?

It's slab, in modified form, continued in use by PCI and DGS, but those were different companies.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,721 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hallmark was owned by Q. David Bowers. Contact him. He is very approachable and friendly.

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hallmark was owned by a consortium of dealers, most of which were silent partners. Bowers and Lee Bellisario of Woburn, Massachusetts were the front men.

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I know I have an 09 VDB graded MS64 Red in an original Hallmark holder somewhere, that
    I acquired around 1989....but it may have been slabbed well before then.



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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hallmark evolved into Photo Certified Coin Institute when Louis Revels purchased Hallmark. The PCCI capsules (slabs) actually used the acronym PCI in the insert graphics when they included a photo cache with the horizontally rectangular (landscape) oriented encapsulated coin, before the transformation to the vertically rectangular( portrait) oriented PCI slab with the microprinted green border over white insert.

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