Slab Collectors... What's up with this first gen Rattler?

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• LindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2013 3:19AM

  Yes I think so have a couple like it on the desk now.
  
  Edit to remove image as it does not apply.
  

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2013 3:26AM

  all the two-part holders I have seen have obvious circles(from ejection pins in the mold) in the corner, a by product of the manufacturing process of the shells and I don't see them on this holder. the insert looks more like a PCGS 4 since a PCGS 2 would be absent the letters "PCGS" on the label, but a PCGS 4 was a one-part shell. what does the back of the insert look like??

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2013 3:27AM

  Linde, the holder you have pictured is a PCGS 1.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2013 3:30AM

  
  
  << <i>all the two-part holders I have seen have obvious circles(from ejection pins in the mold) in the corner, a by product of the manufacturing process of the shells and I don't see them on this holder. the insert looks more like a PCGS 4 since a PCGS 2 would be absent the letters "PCGS" on the label, but a PCGS 4 was a one-part shell. what does the back of the insert look like?? >>
  
  
  
  Can't help with the reverse as I only stumbled upon an obverse slab shot

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2013 3:45AM

  also, on a PCGS 2 the cert number starts to the right of the barcode.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2013 9:17AM

  Thanks Keets!

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• Billet7 Posts: 4,923 ✭✭✭

  January 12, 2013 1:07AM

  That's not a 2.0. I've never seen anything like it. I think it's fake, and could be valuable as such.

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• Billet7 Posts: 4,923 ✭✭✭

  January 12, 2013 1:09AM

  Maybe its legit...it just doesn't fit in the timeline. It's a rattler holder with a later ogh tag.

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• DaveG Posts: 3,535 ✭

  January 12, 2013 7:48AM

  What you have is a PCGS 3.5 slab (the last of the two part slabs) with the outer stacking ring removed.
  
  The "obvious circles (from ejection pins in the mold)" are present, although not very clearly, due to the white background of the image. The circle in the lower right corner is the most visible of the four.
  
  According to Conder101, the PCGS 3.5 variety was used only during the last week of December 1989 and uses the same label as PCGS 4.0, which is the first of the "OGH" slabs.
  
  The reverse of the slab should feature the PCGS logo on the left of the label and a hologram on the right half of the label, the same as PCGS 4.0.

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