Blazing fast order results!

DennisH

Early this month a local coin club member asked if I'd send some unopened 2023 modern proofs to PCGS for him. I decided to add to the order and split the shipping costs by finally taking a coin-by-coin look at a roll of 2014 (P) American Silver Eagles I bought in March, and picking out the ones I thought were pristine. I found 7. Everything was sent Modern Value Economy service. The turnaround speed was insanely fast. Here's the timeline:

Dec. 4 – coins mailed at Post Office
Dec. 7 – USPS tracking showed package delivered to PCGS
Dec. 11 – PCGS logged in coins as Received
Dec. 13 – coins went to Grading stage
Dec. 14 – coins advanced to Encapsulation stage
Dec. 15 – coins advanced to Quality Assurance stage
Dec. 19 – grades posted (late morning)
Dec. 19 – PCGS status showed coins shipped (mid afternoon)
Dec. 19 – FedEx sent text saying package was on its way (late afternoon)
Dec. 20 – FedEx status says delivery is expected today which I'll only believe if it happens.

Here are the grade results:

oih82w8

I am not sure it's because your order was for moderns or not, but it's probably because one of my orders is not slowing down the process.

Meltdown

Phil was probably slowing everything down...

1madman

@Meltdown said:
Phil was probably slowing everything down...

I know you may be joking, but I had mentioned something to this effect before as well. I’ve had submissions where I did not want trueviews, and the coins were “being imaged” during the grading stage, encapsulation stage, and the QA stage. Sometimes I think PCGS has turned into a photography company with the annoying nuisance of grading a coin between endless glamour shots.

flyguyfl

Amazing timeline.