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Ok I should probably know this but still just entering the field. I see coins listed, like on eBay, with "Michael Fuller Collection" on the actual label. They seem to be listed for a premium. Can someone please tell me what this means? Thanks!!

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    No offense intended for Michael Fuller et al, but I have collected for 70+ years and it means nothing to me. I look forward to being enlightened.
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    MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it's just a pedigree. Someone paid to put the name on the slab.
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,503 ✭✭✭✭
    Sets entered in the PCGS Set Registry qualify for FREE Pedigree's if the set is in the TOP Five.

    All you need to do is send the entire set in, pay the $10 per coin reholder fee, and PCGS will put a Pedigree moniker of your choice on the label.

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    Generally speaking, the Pedigree only has as much value as the name or set title on the slab and who owned or assembled the set.

    For example, an Eliasberg Pedigree carries much more weight than a Lydston. image
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
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    got it. thank you.
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>All you need to do is send the entire set in, pay the $10 per coin reholder fee, and PCGS will put a Pedigree moniker of your choice on the label. >>



    Wouldn't it have been a whole lot cheaper to just buy a Sharpie and write your name on all of your slabs? Or is it an ego thing?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    I remember the Michael Fuller collection
    which was one of the finest Proof Washington Quarter
    Collections of its era. I bid on and lost out on a number
    of coins which would have been great upgrades for my
    Washington collection.

    Not many Pedigrees carry much weight on resale -
    myself included - and although I actually paid a premium
    to get back a coin I was sorry to have sold in the first place !

    Mike Hayes
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !

    New Barber Purchases
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    derrybderryb Posts: 38,589 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd pay extra for a Jennifer Anniston lable. image

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

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    MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,614 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey GoldenEgg - Nice icon!

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To some collectors, pedigrees are important... just another facet of coin collecting. Cheers, RickO
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    MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hey GoldenEgg - Nice icon!

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    Its nice, I really like it, but is it possible to get my own? I just picked it out of the list.




    << <i>To some collectors, pedigrees are important... just another facet of coin collecting. >>



    Last Year, I bought a cheap error coin from the New England Collection. I wanted it at first, but I also liked
    the thought of owning an error from the great collection. The pedigree was the deciding factor for me.

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