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Is it possible to determine when a PCGS coin was graded based on cert number?

desslokdesslok Posts: 310 ✭✭✭
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Sorry if this question was asked before. Given a current, modern PCGS slab and serial number, can the serial number give a hint as to when the particular coin was graded?

For example, I would like to try to figure out when the coin with serial number 31573659 was submitted. It's a world error coin so off-topic for this forum, but the question applies to U.S. coins as well.

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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It has. You haven't seen it, so it's a fair question.

    Answer is "no, it isn't".



    Best you can do is know the generation of the label/slab and then have an idea of that timeframe. Cert # won't do it.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Our host of course has that information, but they don't make it public. You can get some idea from the holder generation. Blocks of cert numbers are used seemingly at random.
  • desslokdesslok Posts: 310 ✭✭✭
    Thank you both for your responses
  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Based solely on my US coin submissions, your submission most likely graded in the first couple months of 2015.
  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭


    It is in most cases over the last 10 years with the exception of any certificates starting with 25. Before that as mentioned, slab generations.
  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PS, it was graded the first week of February, 2015.

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