Reholder with variety on holder

seatedlib3991

I have put together a half dozen Seated Dimes that are in PCGS slabs now. The coins are top 100 varieties but that is not on the holder. I have never been a PCGS member but was trying to figure out what level of membership is required to : as I understand it pay $14 dollars for each reholder but no grading involved. Pay $20 each coin to have the Fortin # put on. determine what if anything the change in being reholdered might make in price being charged. paid less than $300 per coin but do not know if the reholder changes the price. Anyone familiar with tis service? James

davewesen

$5/trueview if wanted, $10 submission handling fee, shipping fee both ways, CC membership (go the cheapest - silver)

MetroD

Submission privileges, and pricing, are the same, regardless of membership level (i.e., Ag = Au = Pt).

The more expensive membership levels include grading vouchers for the "regular" service level (i.e., 4 for Au, and 8 for Pt). Additionally, the Pt level includes a tee-shirt and a loupe.
Reference: https://www.pcgs.com/join
Note - the vouchers are NOT valid for variety attribution fees.

As to the cost:

Source: https://www.pcgs.com/varietyfaq

privatecoin

VSS for me.

seatedlib3991

I could not find how much a membership costs for some reason. what does the base membership cost?

MetroD

@seatedlib3991 said:
I could not find how much a membership costs for some reason. what does the base membership cost?

Source: https://www.pcgs.com/join

PeakRarities

With the range of value in this situation, I’d either save your money or use vss. You’ll pay all that money, there’s a considerable chance they’ll mess something up, and your new pictures will be worthless too.

If you’re determined to use PCGS, I’d just opt to use “re grade” at the at point. At least then you have a chance to add some tangible value to them. That said, idk how the attribution would impact the value, but I can’t imagine it would be much, and it would probably be negated by the trueview.

seatedlib3991

@PeakRarities . I have no intention of getting trueviews. The money factor is a wash in my opinion. In 3 years of tracking I have discovered coins with a designation gain a nominal 20 to 25 percent in value. (We are talking $250 to$350 coins here) All coins will be sold by my heirs, and since these are my most recent coins they will not be sold for at least 5 years They will be sold by Great Collections but GC only puts what is on the label in their auction descriptions. they also take care of all photos.
I also want my heirs to know what coins are which. Their eyes will glaze over if I tell them "This 1838 with the long obverse die crack and smaller pie shaped crack is the 106A." I will eliminate any confusion and I am Dutch. Descriptions will be correct.
Last of all. It is annoying to have half described. It is like having somebody recite the alphabet: a c e g i j..... And thanks for telling me the membership cost! Even when I asked they just said lets get started and would demand i start a submission form. James

MetroD

Others have suggested VSS.

For whatever it is worth:
~ GC recognizes VSS variety attributions. Reference;
~ VSS only charges $6/coin for their VAMSeal. Reference.

For an example of how GC handles a PCGS slabbed coin with a VSS variety attribution, see this example.

seatedlib3991

@MetroD . thanks for information. will check it out. james