NGC to PCGS crossover questions

cinque1543

According to their website, PCGS will do "on-site grading" at the World's Fair of Money show in Oklahoma City in August. I'm thinking of having a couple NGC-graded coins crossed over to PCGS holders. I've never done a crossover before, so two questions:

1. At the show, I assume that I will submit the NGC-graded coin in its NGC holder, and that the PCGS people will crack the coin out of the NGC holder. In other words, I do not have to crack out the coin before-hand. Is this correct?

2. For crossovers, will PCGS complete the crossover process at the show, and hand me back my newly-slabbed PCGS coins? Or do they take the NGC-graded coins back to their home office, and ship the PCGS-holdered coins to me at a later date?

Thank you.

MetroD

I can answer your first question. Hopefully, someone else will respond to your second question.

Q1) Your assumption is correct. You would submit the coin in its NGC holder for crossover. PCGS will remove the coin from the NGC holder IF, and only IF, it meets your crossover specification.

Reference: https://www.pcgs.com/crossover

skier07

For the bigger shows with on-site grading PCGS will hand you back the coins at the show typically on Friday or Saturday.

Coinobsessed

Talk to them at the show. You can leave it in the holder if it does not cross or have them crack it out.

MetroD

@skier07 said:
For the bigger shows with on-site grading PCGS will hand you back the coins at the show typically on Friday or Saturday.

I am assuming that if you want the coins back by the end of the show, you have to pay the "show services" pricing, not the standard "service level" pricing, for the grading.

Reference: https://www.pcgs.com/servicesandfees

IOW, the submitter decides how their coins are returned (i.e., at show vs. shipped).

MFeld

@cinque1543 said:
According to their website, PCGS will do "on-site grading" at the World's Fair of Money show in Oklahoma City in August. I'm thinking of having a couple NGC-graded coins crossed over to PCGS holders. I've never done a crossover before, so two questions:

1. At the show, I assume that I will submit the NGC-graded coin in its NGC holder, and that the PCGS people will crack the coin out of the NGC holder. In other words, I do not have to crack out the coin before-hand. Is this correct?

2. For crossovers, will PCGS complete the crossover process at the show, and hand me back my newly-slabbed PCGS coins? Or do they take the NGC-graded coins back to their home office, and ship the PCGS-holdered coins to me at a later date?

Thank you.

Regarding your first question above: If you were to remove the coin from the holder prior to submitting it to PCGS, that would be a regular submission, not a "crossover". A "crossover" applies to a coin crossing over from one grading company's holder into to another.

Be sure to include a minimum grade for crossover service on the submission invoice. If you check/indicate "cross at any grade" you'll be at risk of the coin being cracked out of the NGC holder and grading lower than you'd be happy with.

cinque1543

Thank you. The responses are very helpful. One more question pls. Does PCGS do on-site grading only for US coins, or also for foreign coins?

gumby1234

@MFeld said:

@cinque1543 said:
According to their website, PCGS will do "on-site grading" at the World's Fair of Money show in Oklahoma City in August. I'm thinking of having a couple NGC-graded coins crossed over to PCGS holders. I've never done a crossover before, so two questions:

1. At the show, I assume that I will submit the NGC-graded coin in its NGC holder, and that the PCGS people will crack the coin out of the NGC holder. In other words, I do not have to crack out the coin before-hand. Is this correct?

2. For crossovers, will PCGS complete the crossover process at the show, and hand me back my newly-slabbed PCGS coins? Or do they take the NGC-graded coins back to their home office, and ship the PCGS-holdered coins to me at a later date?

Thank you.

Regarding your first question above: If you were to remove the coin from the holder prior to submitting it to PCGS, that would be a regular submission, not a "crossover". A "crossover" applies to a coin crossing over from one grading company's holder into to another.

Be sure to include a minimum grade for crossover service on the submission invoice. If you check/indicate "cross at any grade" you'll be at risk of the coin being cracked out of the NGC holder and grading lower than you'd be happy with.

I would like to add one thing to what Mark said which would be that sometimes after the coin is cracked out for crossover that something is noticed that will prevent the coin from crossing at the chosen grade.

1madman

@cinque1543 said:
Thank you. The responses are very helpful. One more question pls. Does PCGS do on-site grading only for US coins, or also for foreign coins?

Pcgs will do on site for foreign coins. The only thing is you need to call pcgs before the show to ask them if they will have a grader there for your coin’s country.