Anyone know what year PCGS started their Gold Shield service?

Coin Finder

What year and was it with the solid blue label? I need to date some slabs thanks..

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

What are the first 3 #'s of the cert?

Coin Finder

209

MsMorrisine

2010

Perhaps the SP image info on the cert lookup might also give a hint if the image date can be pulled from the pcgs web site.

MsMorrisine

after fighting with the browser.
https://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/27266095_max.jpg
this image shows a date of Monday, March 04, 2013, 11:11:46 PM

and

https://images.pcgs.com/Source/32654136_Max.jpg
Saturday, January 18, 2014, 5:44:52 AM
but it is clearly from the SP early days. HMmmmmm

Crypto

There is a scarce/rare blue Metallic label from the vey early SP days

MsMorrisine

@Crypto said:
There is a scarce/rare blue Metallic label from the vey early SP days

Photo?

Lakesammman

Is this what you're referring to??

Coin Finder

@Lakesammman Thats it!! I am trying to see how long "red" copper jas been in a holder to determine how stable it is. So far so good. Thanks everyone!! The coin I have started its life in a NGC holder that sold at FUN in 2011. Now it is in the holder above.

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

...well they didn't take very long to get it crossed because I was getting #209 certs in 2011

edit: #206 certs end of September 2011 and #209 certs beginning of November 2011 for me

MsMorrisine

and I forgot about the continuation of the Generations slab thread organized and kept by Lakesammman

perhaps Lakes can link it here

Lakesammman

Here's the generations thread - have been working on it since the Photobucket disaster.

It's very different from how PCGS looks at generations but I find it visually useful especially for putting PCGS Samples into their proper emission sequence.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/918775/pcgs-generations-an-attempted-update-slowly-being-updated-8-17#latest

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

@Lakesammman and @Crypto

...is this one of them? Look at the old school single obverse only sniffer-scan in the cert link

https://www.pcgs.com/cert/16934876