David Hall's Greatest Idea?
COINage Magazine|October - November 2024
REGISTRY SET CONCEPT EXPANDS COLLECTING
SCOTT A. TRAVERS
David Hall's Greatest Idea?

Registry sets, assembled by collectors and investors in the thousands, are revolutionary not only in concept, but also in conception. They resulted from combining the coin market's grading revolution and the wider world's computer revolution.

The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) introduced its Set Registry program in booklet format in 1997 and on the Internet in 2001.

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