Any way to tell what minimum grade request was for ATB coins from A-Mark?

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• Manorcourtman Posts: 8,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 5, 2011 2:18AM

  
  
  << <i>I received my ATB 5oz coins from A-Mark, and they were all in PCGS slabs, with Choice BU (no grade). When I purchased them from A-Mark, I understood they would be in PCGS slabs but not graded, but I was wondering if there was a way to tell what minimum grade was requested when A-Mark sent these in. Obviously they were sent in under bulk submission, and no grade was given if they didn't meet a certain grade, but there must be a way to find that out? >>
  
  
  
  Many believe that the A-Mark sets were not cherry-picked and sent to PCGS simply for the fact that that way they didn't have to worry about packaging them. I don't believe A-Mark had any grade requirements and simply sent them in for bulk BU labels, which was cheapest. I can attest that my BU set was not cherrypicked and is indeed very high grade!!

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• Bochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 5, 2011 3:09AM

  In the "monster ATB" thread, there are comments from folks that called AMark and were told that grades were not requested.
  I can believe it. It was a LOT easier/safer/better for AMark to send to PCGS just to get encapsulated (for a holder for each coin) and quicker just to do the BU.
  
  IF they had done otherwise, things would have been slower and they would have put their reputation at stake. They seem to have been super standup on this and treated everyone equal.
  Having done flips before, and being stuck in the mint's website messes, this was just like that and so I can't complain that they did different than the mint (even with shipping to PCGS then to us, they still delivered quicker than the mint on most hot items)

  I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

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