PCGS 10,000,000th Coin... my buttocks

[dakra]

I did a quick check.... (it's very quiet at work) the last coin in their system is 9987445. and then the next coin graded is 10,000,000.

 

Opps! :-)

 

Dave

[gmarguli]

I've often wondered about those numbers. I've never seen a slab with the number 00,000,001. I don't recall ever seeing one with a number less than 100,000.

 

Do they count crackouts where the inserts were returned?

 

Also, some insert numbers have been duplicated (more than one legit coin is in a slab with the same insert number).

 

Do they count bodybags. If so, the number of coins in PCGS slabs should be around 37.

[Tradedollarnut]

With 13,000 more to go they certainly could have gotten a better one. I mean, NGC got my old 1913 Lib nickel - what are the odds?

[braddick]

Isn't the slab insert number on the NGC graded 1913 Nickel something like, 50505050 (or, something like that)?

 

(I know it's a tribute to the show, "Hawaii50", but it proves the novelty factor both Services use).

[James_OldeTowne]

I've always wondered something. Are the serial numbers actually sequential? or randomly assigned?

 

James

[dakra]

Sorry but even with NGC, I find it quite unusual how the milestone numbers are always some rare coin that just happen to pop up at the right time.

 

I'd respect it more if they just admitted. "We hand picked such and such rare coin as our 10,000,000 coin"... instead of trying to decieve people.

 

In the whole scheme of things, it's not a big deal but it just seems so fake when they do stuff like this. I hate fakeness!

 

Dave

[jom]

I find it quite unusual how the milestone numbers are always some rare coin that just happen to pop up at the right time.

 

I find it quite unusual that people give a damn about slab serial numbers.

 

jom

[gmarguli]

I've always wondered something. Are the serial numbers actually sequential? or randomly assigned?

 

James

 

NGC are based on the invoice number. I believe they are going up in numbers in a fairly sequential order, but I'm not 100% sure.

 

At PCGS they are randomly picked by one of the slabbers. You might have a coin graded today with the serial 9865432 and two months from now get one graded with 7687654. There is no way to tell by the number when the coin was graded.

[dena]

I've always wondered something. Are the serial numbers actually sequential? or randomly assigned?

 

James

 

NGC are based on the invoice number. I believe they are going up in numbers in a fairly sequential order, but I'm not 100% sure.

 

Yes, NGC cert numbers are based on the invoice number and you are correct that they are fairly sequential but not strictly sequential. Blocks of numbers were used in the past for things like online submission forms, internal use, etc. So, if we run into a block of numbers already used, we would obviously jump to the next group of available numbers.

[braddick]

I've always wondered something. Are the serial numbers actually sequential? or randomly assigned?

 

James

 

NGC are based on the invoice number. I believe they are going up in numbers in a fairly sequential order, but I'm not 100% sure.

 

Yes, NGC cert numbers are based on the invoice number and you are correct that they are fairly sequential but not strictly sequential. Blocks of numbers were used in the past for things like online submission forms, internal use, etc. So, if we run into a block of numbers already used, we would obviously jump to the next group of available numbers.

"50505050" 1913 V Nickel. The one used on the popular 70's sitcom Hawaii 50. That coin is not sequential.

[airplanenut]

My understanding is that each day the people at PCGS randomly choose a beginning number for the serials that day... then they just go.

 

I guess when they actually hit a big number, they break for the coin and go to a number with lots of zeros.

 

This should have been a 2003 MS66RD cent instead of a real coin

[James_OldeTowne]

<<<"50505050" 1913 V Nickel. The one used on the popular 70's sitcom Hawaii 50. That coin is not sequential.>>> I did not know that. Cool!

 

James