Weird slab label ATS

[DaveG]

ATS, on the US coin board, Jeremy (Airplanenut) has posted a British 4p in a PCGS OGH slab with a label I've never seen before.

 

Conder101 - you should check it out.

[MarkFeld]

I am, by no means, a slab expert. But my guess - bet actually - is that the holder is legitimate.

 

Among other reasons, why would someone go to the trouble, yet create such an odd/suspicious looking holder? Also, while I'm not certain, I suspect that the encapsulated coin is not of particularly high value and thus there would be no reason to create a counterfeit holder for it.

[nk1nk]

wow!! that is very cool.

 

Nick

[brg5658]

ATS, on the US coin board, Jeremy (Airplanenut) has posted a British 4p in a PCGS OGH slab with a label I've never seen before.

 

Conder101 - you should check it out.

 

Link?

[lehigh96]

ATS, on the US coin board, Jeremy (Airplanenut) has posted a British 4p in a PCGS OGH slab with a label I've never seen before.

 

Conder101 - you should check it out.

 

Link?

 

Odd "Green Label" PCGS slab with a label I have never seen before

[Coin Trader]

My hunch (and it's nothing more than a hunch) is that the slab is a trial by the manufacturer of the plastic -- pre-OGH -- from the very earliest days of PCGS, and the reason that the label is so generic is that they had not yet begun slabbing OGH at the time that this piece was made.

 

Again, just a hunch.

 

 

[e1cnr]

The pop report only has 1 graded 4 pence from 1849 at MS65

 

I suspect a mechanical error in that the coin was awaiting a pcgs coin number for 1849 4 pence and that label was internal tracking number / grade, but somehow coin got slabbed and returned like that

 

 

[PerryHall]

We need Conder101 who literally wrote the book on slabs. (thumbs u

[Conder101]

It is real. I have one in my collection, I acquired it after the book came out. PCGS really wasn't doing much in the way of slabbing world coins at the time and possibly they were doing some experimenting with labels. The world coins really didn't fit into their numbering system and I think they really didn't know what to do with them. This is only the third one I've seen. It is from the PCGS 4 era, 1990 to 1995. The back label nails that down.

 

That's about all I know about it.