What coin was the first coin graded by pcgs? What's the lowest serial number known?

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• LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 19, 2012 10:04AM

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  interesting and difficult inquiry indeed
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• Shortgapbob Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭

  September 19, 2012 10:09AM

  With the interest in holder collecting (Doilies, Regency, NGC Black, Gold CAC) I bet the first PCGS certified coin would bring A LOT of money if it surfaced and sold.

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  September 19, 2012 10:19AM

  I think I remember tha d hall and some of the other founders did a test run of bag Morgan's that they took around to show people and what not.

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 19, 2012 4:19PM

  It's unlikely the first slab is distinguishable from any other of the old rattler slab. The serial numbers weren't sequential starting with 00000001.

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• MsMorrisine Posts: 36,249 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 19, 2012 6:35PM

  
  
  << <i>It's unlikely the first slab is distinguishable from any other of the old rattler slab. The serial numbers weren't sequential starting with 00000001. >>
  
  
  
  
  I wonder if they even put them in the database in order?
  
  
  Perhaps there is someone with a bend towards history at PCGS who would have "the first one slabbed" noted or still hanging around at the offices.
  
  
  

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• illini420 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 19, 2012 6:39PM

  When PCGS had their 25th anniversary party (and issued the 1986 quarters in 25th anniversary sample slabs), I remember reading that they had on display a couple of the very first coins ever certified by PCGS. I couldn't find the original thread talking about it, but I recall that they were just like the rattlers but had white inserts.
  
  

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• astrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 19, 2012 6:46PM

  I would imagine that the "first" PCGS coin slabbed is in the hands of one of the founders. I know when ANACS first started slabbing they offered the "first" ones to be slabbed to the staff. I am not sure how many of those early ones still exist, but I know of at least one.

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• illini420 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 19, 2012 6:51PM

  
  
  << <i>When PCGS had their 25th anniversary party (and issued the 1986 quarters in 25th anniversary sample slabs), I remember reading that they had on display a couple of the very first coins ever certified by PCGS. I couldn't find the original thread talking about it, but I recall that they were just like the rattlers but had white inserts. >>
  
  
  
  
  Found it in one of Charmy's show reports... here's her pic of the display they had at the 25th anniversary party:
  
  
  
  Here's Charmy's show report of the Feb 2011 Long Beach show and that 25th anniversary party w/ more photos of slabs too...
  
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• Treashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 19, 2012 11:28PM

  High serial #'s on them.
  
  Obviously they didn't start with #1.

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• Kove Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭✭

  September 20, 2012 1:23AM

  I have handled 4 PCGS white label rattlers. Every serial number started with 108xxxx

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• Nickcap Posts: 977 ✭

  September 20, 2012 11:10AM

  
  
  
  
  

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• MrD Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭

  September 20, 2012 12:58PM

  I don't know what the lowest number is but I own the first coin encapsulated by ANACS although I have forgotten the slab number. A very cool item!!

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