World Grading turn around times?

ShadyDave

@coinkat said:
Coins arrived today... I have often been told results that are posted are better with images... so once we have images I plan to share the results. Images are worth more than what I am capable of writing.

If you don't want to wait, our friends in the photography department of PCGS will usually expedite finalizing your TruViews if you email them and ask nicely : Photography@collectors.com

neildrobertson

I wonder how many months it takes for them to work down a 3 month backlog.

atom

@ShadyDave said:
Received my world regular submission grades on business day 61 (1/21/22 -4/15/22). TruViews posted the same day.

Received my world regular crossover submission grades back yesterday, 65 business days (1/21/22- 4/21/22). Went 8-8 for crossovers with 3 1-point upgrades and no downgrades. Still no TruViews.

Have a world econ submission sitting in grading at business day 66 with no end in sight.

impressive results!
Which countries?

Bob13

Three calendar months since received, still in grading. I’m guessing another month at this point.

Bob13

Into "Encapsulation" today! Any idea how long from here on out?

tcollects

you guys are looking at this all wrong - each coin submitted is exhaustively studied for months, committees are held to debate the pros and cons of each individual coin and nobody leaves the room until consensus is reached, each capsule is lathed by hand by master craftsmen and women, every coin is escorted at all times by multiple heavily armed ex special forces, shipping uses the finest handmade artisan tapes and bubble wraps, if you understood the quality treatment that happens behind the scenes, you'd never question these turnaround times

SanctionII

I have a World coin submission (6 coins) at PCGS that was delivered to PCGS at the Long Beach show on 2-17-2022. This submission was "received" on 2-22-2022 and has stayed there ever since. It has not yet moved from "received" to "grading".

I have no clue when this submission will move forward through the process and be returned to me.

neildrobertson

My world submission was received on 4/1/2022 and moved to grading last week. I'm not expecting anything within 3 months based on everything I'm hearing from others.

tcollects

I'm adding "all my PCGS submissions in process" to my asset schedule of my trust, at least my beneficiaries will have a clue where my stuff is

krueger

7 U.S. regular submittal . Quoted 50 working days. I am now at 66 working days coin still have not moved?
Let's see maybe 4 grading teams times 200 coins a day equals 800 coins per day now times 66 working days equals
52,800+ coins graded before my 7. That's a very very long line? Diswading me from more submittals UGH!
NGC is alot quicker.

bidask

I just got a notice that my submission from
mid January this year was completed and shipped yesterday .

I paid for a world express.

I want to thank our hosts for the credit they offered me!

ShadyDave

@atom said:

@ShadyDave said:
Received my world regular submission grades on business day 61 (1/21/22 -4/15/22). TruViews posted the same day.

Received my world regular crossover submission grades back yesterday, 65 business days (1/21/22- 4/21/22). Went 8-8 for crossovers with 3 1-point upgrades and no downgrades. Still no TruViews.

Have a world econ submission sitting in grading at business day 66 with no end in sight.

impressive results!
Which countries?

Central American Republic, Chinese Empire, Italy, Papal States.

My last sub currently at PCGS had the grades pop on Friday 5/20, 86 business days for world econ (delivered to PCGS on 1/21). The coins are still in QA today, which seems a little out of the ordinary. Encapsulation took about a week and after moving into QA took another 2-3 business days to get grades.

messydesk

@messydesk said:
World regular submission marked received on 4/13, which includes the last two to make my WCIEA completion "official." I'm thinking grades probably won't pop until after the 6/30/22 deadline for this year's registry awards, though.

Still "received" as of today, but they've identified what the coins are.

Bob13

4 months since my coins were received on 2/2/22... still in encapsulation. Very frustrating.

Uggh.

MrBreeze

@Bob13

Look at the bright side, I have 3 coins from a collectors club submission from January in "encapsulation."

So, there is at least one person worse off than you.

Unfortunately for everyone, there are a lot of forces converging at one time that have really strained many businesses.

Bob13

Ok - I made it to quality assurance or quality check. How long does that take usually??

messydesk

It takes until someone kicks one coin back to grading. Could be quick, could take a while. Meanwhile, my order is now over 2 months in the "received" state.

neildrobertson

@Bob13 said:
Ok - I made it to quality assurance or quality check. How long does that take usually??

Historically it has been 2-3 days. However I'd expect up to 2 weeks right now.

Bob13

OK - now I see "Grades Ready" and "Images Ready" but Still says grade "In Process."

How close am I?

Bob13

Grades popped today! So received on 02/02/2022. Grades ready 06/22/2022. It says "Images Ready" but no TVs yet.

worldcoinguy

@Bob13 - Any surprises? Its been a long buildup to this reveal ...... I hope you had a winning hand this time around.

Edited to say I didn't see the results in the other thread. Well done!

Bailathacl

Just received grades from our hosts on 3 coins which were submitted on the economy tier at the Long Beach show. Waiting to see them in hand, but the grading results were slightly better than expected — so worth the wait! May post once they are back in the fold.

messydesk

After over 2 months in "received," my order is finally in "grading." Now if they can just it done by next Wednesday I can add them to my set in time for the registry deadline.

BWAAAHAHAHAAA!

ELuis

@messydesk said:
After over 2 months in "received," my order is finally in "grading." Now if they can just it done by next Wednesday I can add them to my set in time for the registry deadline.

BWAAAHAHAHAAA!

What service level?

golden

@messydesk said:
After over 2 months in "received," my order is finally in "grading." Now if they can just it done by next Wednesday I can add them to my set in time for the registry deadline.

BWAAAHAHAHAAA!

Hope you get them in time!

messydesk

@golden said:

@messydesk said:
After over 2 months in "received," my order is finally in "grading." Now if they can just it done by next Wednesday I can add them to my set in time for the registry deadline.

BWAAAHAHAHAAA!

Hope you get them in time!

Regular service level. I'm not going to get them in time for this year, which is a pity. Two would make my World Coins in Early America set 100% complete and the others would fill in the run in my Prime Number Set from 1579-2003. I figured sending them at the beginning of April, when my 4 Reales showed up, would be cutting it close, but apparently it's not even close to cutting it close.

golden

That is a darn shame.

ELuis

@messydesk said:

Regular service level.

Thanks.

neildrobertson

My World Econ order received on 4/1 is still in grading.

Walter

I've got 4 world orders from 2021 still processing. PCGS Hong Kong is telling me processing time is 9 months!

lordmarcovan

I still have a piece at PCGS that was received there on March 9th. Tomorrow (July 9, 2022) will be the four-month anniversary of its sojourn in Long Beach.

lordmarcovan

@jt88 said:
I believe if your submission stay at received for a long time is because PCGS has a hard time or needs time to identify the coins.

I think there's something to this. The piece I have that's been in limbo for four months is rather esoteric- a 1596 jeton from the Spanish Netherlands.

7Jaguars

LOL. Probably. When I went to the Baltimore show last month, I cringed on drop-off of coins at our hosts and the other TPG - will I ever see the coins again? Also, my last punishment with them almost drove me away from such endeavours.

FrankH

Buy.......................... ALREADY SLABBED

jt88

My walkthru order was received on 6/27 and was shipped yesterday. another one also shipped yesterday that was received on 1/9/2022, regular submission.

jt88

World Economy is 90 days now

tcollects

I'm brainstorming possible solutions and one promising idea would be to draft/kidnap good graders at the next Long Beach show and force them to grade like 100,000 bullion coins until their pupils bleed and the first one who does it right gets a big balloon full of money and maybe an 8-coin grading voucher. it could kinda be like coin Squid Game.

jt88

Well, if you want to pay walkthru price then you can get it back in 7 - 10 days. I have a coin I can send express but I sent walkthru instead so I got it back in 10 days.

tcollects

@jt88 said:
Well, if you want to pay walkthru price then you can get it back in 7 - 10 days. I have a coin I can send express but I sent walkthru instead so I got it back in 10 days.

I'm imagining a mime slowly tiptoeing through the grading process, like one of those buskers who pretends to be a slow moving robot

messydesk

@tcollects said:

@jt88 said:
Well, if you want to pay walkthru price then you can get it back in 7 - 10 days. I have a coin I can send express but I sent walkthru instead so I got it back in 10 days.

I'm imagining a mime slowly tiptoeing through the grading process, like one of those buskers who pretends to be a slow moving robot

The kind that nobody pays so that they never move?

Euclid

My world econ sub is at 113 business days today and still in grading. Anyone have me beat?

I have more coins to sub but I am reconsidering where I'll do that out of fear of not getting coins back by end of year.

tcollects

you need to start thinking about PCGS as free secure storage, drop your old undersized safe deposit box and send everything to PCGS in the cheapest tier possible, then they'll store your coins free for a few years while teams of experts meet in a consensus circle where they consume peyote, burn sage and summon each coin's spirit, one per week, to divine each coin's inner grade, the key is forgetting about collecting during this time and focus on other hobbies like RC cars or horses

neildrobertson

I'm at 102 days now on world econ. 71 days on world regular.

DennisH

I mailed a single coin yesterday for Regular crossover service. What are my odds of getting it back before Xmas?

neildrobertson

@DennisH said:
I mailed a single coin yesterday for Regular crossover service. What are my odds of getting it back before Xmas?

Under 50% at the current rate.

tcollects

seriously, no offense to our gracious host intended, what are world turnaround times across the street nowadays?

I'm sitting on like 250 regular submissions, I don't want some 6 month debacle

TwoKopeiki

@tcollects said:
seriously, no offense to our gracious host intended, what are world turnaround times across the street nowadays?

I'm sitting on like 250 regular submissions, I don't want some 6 month debacle

Express has been taking about a week, standard 35-40 days.

tcollects

hmmm... that's a big difference, probably a little looser grading and fewer details grades, cheaper, do I get a massage with that too?

neildrobertson

I have a regular submission in right now at over 75 days.

jt88

I have three orders are in grading that was received on 4/7/2022, almost 5 months now.