The 2022 PCGS Set Registry Award Pins Are a Hit with Members!

By Sanjay Gandhi

Earlier this year, the PCGS Set Registry mailed over 2,000+ pins to our award-winning members with the help of our PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator) Set Registry teammates. We are grateful for their teamwork. With over 162,000 sets built by our members, we continue to offer the best Set Registry experience worldwide. In 2023, we look forward to building upon our success and sending out more awards than last year as our membership continues to grow. Our members have been excited about receiving their pins, which resulted in some pin awards being displayed via social media, prompting conversations about member pin awards in our collectors' forum, and some of our members have been wearing their pins to shows. We 100% appreciate and encourage this!

One of our members posted the following about their award, “I have a few different sets. I am thrilled to have received the pin. Looking at the sets, I have one in first place and two in second place. Pin [on the way] probably for one of those three. Have a great day. Thank you PCGS! Rocco.” Another PCGS member posted, “I received my pin in today's mail. I’ll be attending Winter FUN Wednesday, Jan 4th - Sunday, Jan 8th. I’ll be wearing this pin on my shirt, [commented] Steve.” We appreciate Steve’s praise about his award, and his comments may resonate differently with some collectors that collect plaques.

Traditionally, we have issued award plaques during each PCGS Set Registry Award season for a majority of our members. PCGS will no longer issue plaques going forward, and this decision allows PCGS to award more pins to more members in the future. From our surveys, we have concluded that a majority of our members were unable to bring their plaques to coin shows to display them.

The transition PCGS has made from distributing traditional plaques to pins has allowed more collectors the opportunity to display their achievement(s) more easily in person. PSA, which is a subsidiary of PCGS and in the Collectors family of companies, has also adopted the same change in terms of issuing pin awards.

The PCGS Set Registry continues serving as a powerful inventory management tool built for coin collectors of all levels. Within the PCGS Set Registry, members may track their inventory with images, costs, market prices, and population comparisons – all of which are available in a secure online environment. We offer the best tools online to organize any coin collection, and with the feedback we’ve received from our members, we continue to innovate the PCGS Set Registry into what it has evolved into today: the most powerful inventorymanagement tool built for coin collectors of all levels and a fun, safe place to show off their collections.

We look forward to the PCGS Set Registry Awards this year, which are right around the corner. The deadline is June 30, 2023, for all sets to be considered for an award this season. The reduction in the amount of award plaques has allowed PCGS to recognize more award winners than ever. An overwhelming number of members have provided PCGS with their gratitude in regards to their pin award they have received from us. Please stop by our PCGS Set Registry booth at any show displaying your pin, and we just might have a surprise waiting for you.