Jefferson Nickel PCGS Restoration Results

ProofCollection

Had a couple of ugly Jefferson Nickels Restored solely to improve appearance, not for any grade improvement and the grades did not change. I'm very happy with the results.
1954-D MS64FS Before:

After:

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1943-P MS66FS Before:

After:

sanddollar

Great results on the second one, the first looks now a bit sterile.

Old_Collector

After look much nicer than before, curious what is the approx cost per coin for this without your postage to them?

ProofCollection

@Old_Collector said:
After look much nicer than before, curious what is the approx cost per coin for this without your postage to them?

$38 each without handling and shipping.

Clackamas1

@ProofCollection said:

@Old_Collector said:
After look much nicer than before, curious what is the approx cost per coin for this without your postage to them?

$38 each without handling and shipping.

Is that the only fee or did you have to pay for a regrade? Also what was the turn around time?

ProofCollection

@Clackamas1 said:

@ProofCollection said:

@Old_Collector said:
After look much nicer than before, curious what is the approx cost per coin for this without your postage to them?

$38 each without handling and shipping.

Is that the only fee or did you have to pay for a regrade?

Restoration always includes a regrade at the end. The optional part at that price level is I could have saved $5 for no gold shield.

Maywood

Have you ever done any conservation yourself?? I have found that Coper/Nickel is easy to work with and the results are generally good. The Silver issues also yield good results. My "recipe" is the one that @Russ perfected and passed along.

Clackamas1

@Maywood said:
Have you ever done any conservation yourself?? I have found that Coper/Nickel is easy to work with and the results are generally good. The Silver issues also yield good results. My "recipe" is the one that @Russ perfected and passed along.

The only reason I would say have PCGS do it is to preserve the grade. Sometimes the coin reveals things that hurt the grade, sometimes it also brings out the WOW.

GRANDAM

I think they both look great!!!!!

ProofCollection

@Clackamas1 said:

@Maywood said:
Have you ever done any conservation yourself?? I have found that Coper/Nickel is easy to work with and the results are generally good. The Silver issues also yield good results. My "recipe" is the one that @Russ perfected and passed along.

The only reason I would say have PCGS do it is to preserve the grade. Sometimes the coin reveals things that hurt the grade, sometimes it also brings out the WOW.

@Maywood said:
Have you ever done any conservation yourself?? I have found that Coper/Nickel is easy to work with and the results are generally good. The Silver issues also yield good results. My "recipe" is the one that @Russ perfected and passed along.

I've done a little but for the reasons Clackamas1 mentioned, I usually don't want to take the risk myself. And I also like to get TVs, so for $10 extra (in this case and on coins under $1000) it's generally worth it IMO to have PCGS do it.

Maywood

I probably should have clarified what I posted, I wasn't suggesting you should have cracked them out, done it yourself and submitted them.

Old_Collector

Thanks, nice results.

johnny9434

Nice job on the coins, I like 👍

davewesen

Now they look like they just came out of a OBW roll rather than an older album +++++