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Should PCGS slab inserts be readable from above?
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Some slabs like ANACS and SEGS have inserts that are readable from above. Should future PCGS slabs also have this feature?
Should PCGS slab inserts be readable from above?
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I've commented a few times that SEGS has the best designed slab on the market.
Too bad their grading skills are not up to PCGS standards.
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PCGS shouldn't charge more than $20. per coin though upon receipt of the older slabs for the new ones. (More if you're also looking at getting a second peak at the coin for grading).
Might as well.
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Then I could stop doing this.
Lance.
Please elaborate....
With all the Overtons and other text you need them to wrap around the sides as well
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Then pity me!
I wish.
I like the sound the slabs make when you pick them up and then drop them back down after looking at the label.
It would be cool if the denomination, date, and grade could be "heat stamped" or sort of melted into the top of the slab.
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Those labels look dumb.
I think what @lkeigwin has going on is pretty fantastic. If pcgs did top and bottom like that it could be extra security too.
Label on top and RFID tags within.
You could actually tape those to the inside top cover and not have to muck up the slabs... sorta how Whitman Chocolates do it with their Sampler Box...
T> @TonerGuy said:
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Maybe they are taped to the plastic sleeves and not the slab Itself
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Wow the votes are not even close 32 to 4 and 2 abstains
Mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
....what else, a mini top cac sticker as well?
C'mon.
TBH yes. And an RFID or indicia, so I can hold my tablet over the coin in its holder and manipulate it in all 3 dimensions without ever having to touch it. They'd make tens of millions of dollars off this if they did it right. The cameras exist and the tech is there.
It would literally be amazing if top labels had indicia imprints and someone could manipulate the coin in all 3 spacial dimensions and angles. I personally would love to hold my tablet up to a showcase at a show and be able to "handle" coins. The software exists to map the entire coin, so you could even change light sources and how the coin would look when you turn it.
I am fine with reading from the front...Many of my slabs are in display drawers (face up) anyway.... Cheers, RickO
Coins change slots to make room for others so a "lid map" isn't practical. Plus, why stop and refer to a map when you can just look at the coins?
Lance.
If it was done correctly it might be OK but all the slabs I have seen that read from the top are the UGLIEST slabs and I would not want these in my collection
GREAT Suggestion. I hope this thread gets at least 100 posts.
Just a thought. I dont care for the plastic sleeves but to each his own.
I'm with you on plastic sleeves. But I dislike scratched slabs more. It's nice the sleeves can be quickly and easily removed for viewing.
Lance.
@DonWillis and @homerunhall
Please see the poll results. It would be great if future PCGS slabs had inserts that can be read from above!
I see the utility of it, but don't care if they do it. Heck, to me that is an improvement in my embracing of change given that I initially did not like the prong gasket, which I now like and think PCGS made a good decision by using the design. Still an old curmudgeon, but perhaps more adaptable.
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Yes-top labeling is a great idea.
SEGS has the best slab in the market. And I will attested to their grading skills too; I have seen grading abominations in all slabs too, just recently had a chance to view a so-called VF20 1918/7-d buff nickel that looks like a vg08 slabbed by one of the leading grading services.
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Without having done a search, SEGS probably has a patent on the top reading slab which means that PCGS would have to license the technology from them. I doubt PCGS would want the market confusion of their slabs looking like SEGs slabs. And of course the expense of retooling all of the machinery.
Some questions on the SEGS slabs:
Ok, to avoid retooling the existing slab how about ... say for $1 more per slab, if requested, they send you a "host printed" sticker or label, that you can apply to the edge ?
I think that would be quite lazy...the day that I cannot bring myself to waste the half a calorie it takes to lift the slab out of the box to look at the label is the day that I find something else to do with my life...
Wow the votes are not even close 32 to 4 and 2 abstains
Mark> @Coinstartled said:
Great idea Mark!
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I have not been able to find an ANACS patent.
SEGS' patent is a DESIGN patent (the decorative appearance of their slab) and has expired.
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Haven't posted this in awhile, so here goes for all the newbies...
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That would make crack outs much harder! You practically need a saw to open them.
Where will the CAC sticker go?
I hope PCGS is reading this. Maybe it will be incorporate this feature when the next slab generation comes out.
That green area is the reserved spot for it. The new larger blue boxes will be quite heavy when full.
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At what point do we stop changing the slab and leave it as is?
I like the current slab, even though I think it would be nice to be able to read it from above, but what about just labeling the box?
Later, Paul.
When there's nothing left to improve
Slabs will always be upgraded as time goes by, just like cars. But YES, they should be readable from the top like the Anacs slabs but I think we are in for a long wait, the new slab is a major change, to have it show on the top would be another major change, also NGC doesn't show on the top either.