Do you still have the first coin you ever submitted for TPG?
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Here's mine. I submitted this in person at the ANA world fair of money in 2006 in Denver.
Need a Barber Half with ANACS photo certificate. If you have one for sale please PM me. Current Ebay auctions
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Nice coin!
It took me a while to submit for the first time. It was also Anacs and they had a special for 2 coins (I believe you just had to pay shipping). I sent in two Dan Carr Barber Halfs. I no longer have them.
I think I still do, it was back in late 1986 for PCGS and late 1987 or '88 for NGC.
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Yes,
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Over six months, found a half dozen 1886 p VAM 20's
Two of the three MS examples were nice. A second MS was ugly and included three AU Detail examples.
Got greedy thinking they would be easy to replace.
Made alot of $$$ but have yet to find another since 2018
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This was the first coin I ever had graded at PCGS in about 1989/1990 .
I probably still have the coin because I don’t part with the coins in my core collection unless I have an upgrade. I started getting my early U.S. coins graded in the late 1990s. I had a dealer I know send them to PCGS. The 1796 Quarter I have may have been in the first batch, but I don’t know for sure. I never sent out one coin at a time.
In 1996, I submitted a 1996-W dime from the mint set to PCI after seeing an ad in coin world magazine. I was 13 and still have one of them. I actually submitted 5 of them, I have 2, one in the original holder, and one I crossed to PCGS in 2019 just for fun. The others I sold and gave away.
This coin pushed me over the edge four years ago to having my coins slabbed.
1874-S WB-4 - only three known
No but I remember it well. I bought an MS60 ANACS 1909 SVDB from Allen Rowe (Northern Nevada Coins) in 2002 and cracked it out for my Dansco. Maybe a year later I had finished that set and decided to get the better coins slabbed at PCGS. It came back AU50 🤦🏻♂️
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Not my first coin (that would have been submitted through Bill Spears back in 1986), but I still have an original 1921 Peace Dollar that is very well struck with a planchet flaw on the cheek that PCGS graded MS63 (rattler holder). It would grade at least MS64 w/o the flaw.
The coin I posted was part of a 2 coin in person submission. The other coin was an 1880 proof IHC that had an ANACS photo cert graded PF60/60. It came back 63BN.
Yup...I thought it was a 1799. 1800/79 in reality.
Yes. came back as G-6
No. I have never submitted one as there are more than enough out there to choose from if I want one.
Nope! Sold it....🤑🤑🤑
Sold mine, all of them. I sent in a whole Barber Half Dollar set to PCGS around 2008-2009 or so. Probably around 80 Barber Halves. All sold in a full set to Glenn Holsonbake in 2011.
No. I submitted an 1865 3cn to ANACS photo cert around 1982 and was pleased when the coin I'd bought as an XF for $14 came back as mint state. I sold it a day or two after I got home from graduating college in 1994, dead broke, so I could buy decent shoes to wear to work.
I'll keep an eye out for your photo cert. LOL.
Restarting collecting coins in 2002, I purchased the First Edition of the Professional Coin Grading Service's Official Guide to Coin Grading And Counterfeit Detection. This edition had a coupon on the back page good for one free coin grading from PCGS!
I had an Indian gold type set in a Capital plastic holder I bought on a wim during a time I preferred spending my money on postage stamps. I showed the set to a local dealer who thought it would be worthwhile to send them to PCGS. So at a Central States Show I showed the book to the PCGS desk. They immediately cut the coupon out and took delivery of the four coins. The coins come back, MS64, MS63, AU58, and MS64. Years later the latter three CACed! Still have the set.
Probably my best coin investment.
I submitted ten 1995 DDO Lincoln Cents back in 1995. They all graded MS65 and MS66. I gave one to my father. I sold one to Bill @pontiacinf many many years ago. The other eight I still own. I decided not to part with anymore. I did find one in change at a Burger King back when they first were released. I sent that one to ANACS around 20 years ago. It is graded MS64RED and I still have that one as it is a little sentimental to me.
My first submission was in August of 2022, and I still have about half the coins from that group.
Three are Mercury dime FS-101 DDOs I cherrypicked raw off eBay--1926 (AU53), 1929-S (VF35), and 1931-S (MS62). The fourth is a 1907 (AU58) quarter eagle that belonged to my dad.
I do. Mine was a 1904-P Barber Quarter. It looked AU to me, but it came back in body bag (cleaned).
Dave
That's tough! Not even in a DETAILS holder.
In the early years of PCGS, they would only slab coins that were problem free and that could be straight graded and all problem coins came back in flips commonly called "body bags.". Does anyone remember when PCGS started slabbing problem coins with the problem noted on the label?
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No, I sent some gold coins to ANACS around 2000.
I went to my local general store/ post office in NH, they opened the package because the USPS sent them items in a similar packing.
I was not happy.
But I still have this one, it's the only one I still own from DGS, I found the coin in my change.
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Sold it decades ago. A "Xerox" copy of its certificate from the 1980s.
My first batch to PCGS for crossovers included this one.
Yes. I still have her, even though I sold her at a weak moment, but bought her back before the dealer could put her up on his website.
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@DisneyFan . I bought the same book when it first came out and slabbed a Bust Half. So did they apply the coupon to all 4 coins? James
Yes...
Along time ago,
I submitted some modern gold to NGC.
1991 $10 Gold eagle MS69
1997 $5 Jackie Robinson MS70
I do wish that I'd sold the Jackie Robinson at the peak and bought early US Type/gold.
But at the time, I didn't have an understanding of originality! Heck, some of you would probably say I still don't !
Yes, my first TPG submission is also my first coin, which I received as a birth gift, and have posted in other threads before.
Collector of Liberty Seated Half Dimes, including die pairs and die states
Sorry, so long ago I can't remember. The PCGS website lists my four coin sending as Free (not CC Voucher).
I bought this raw when I first returned to collecting in the late 1980s and submitted it through Chip Gambino, a dealer at the Westchester show. To keep up with changing times, it has acquired a green sticker
Commems and Early Type
This may not qualify, but I have the first coin that was ever submitted to a TPG, but I wasn't the one who submitted it, a 1921-D Walker.
All my coins are still waiting to go to a TPG.
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Any chance you could share the reverse? That is one of the coolest Flowing Hair dollars in that grade I've seen in a hot minute.
Mine was a rainbow toned 1964 Kennedy half dollar. I had to submit through a dealer in La Jolla. I recall he was grumpy about doing so as he thought modern coins were near worthless and thought I was wasting mine, and more importantly, his time.
Coin returned many weeks later as an MS66.
Interestingly, it was also my first thread/post I started here on the forums (before the merge and upgrade). I remember being kind of mocked for thinking my rainbow toned PCGS MS66 half was anything special. I think Dog97 particularly gave me a bit of a hard time.
Ah, the good old days.
I later sold that Kennedy for $300.00 (actually quite a bit back in the early 1990s).
On a related side note: That same Kennedy upgraded to an MS67 and wouldn't be surprised if it was now a + or an MS68.
I have lost track as to current ownership over the last several years.
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Sure thing. Here’s the reverse.
No. I know I did several submissions to ANACS early on and that stuff was probably sold on eBay. I did 3 PCGS submissions in 2004-5 and this was the only coin I still have from a September 2005 submission.
Sent my Lincoln’s and gold type to PCGS when they first opened up. Did well, only my 14s sent back as QC. Sold them all long ago. My first NGC was a Fugio, several years ago, it crossed with an upgrade as expected. Sold it last year when I upgraded again. Sent some stickered NGC to CACG. These days I submit only foreign, to NGC. US and Colonial coins readily available slabbed and no patience to mess with US submissions.
The WLH I posted above, I did submit to ANACS in 1982. Came back F-12. Looking at it today, maybe it would squeak into a slightly higher grade today.
My other early TPG is this 1982 No P dime, graded the following year at MS-63. Interestingly enough, I re-submitted this same coin to ANACS decades later and it got a MS-66!
This modest quarter was my first submission to PCGS, XF45 CAC. Purchased from
Jonathan Kern in 1992.