When selling your PCGS graded coin....

Stooge

....You need to REMOVE THE CERT # FROM YOUR INVENTORY!!!

I've acquired 3 coins so far in 2026 and all 3 of them had the cert. number still listed in the previous owners set inventory. Nothing kills the fun of adding your latest coin purchase more than not being able to add it to your set. Then, you have to go through the red tape of taking pictures, Emails, waiting 3 days, and all the other non-sense.

Yes, I know, before you say anything, you can scan said coin to your phone app. and it adds it right there and then, but that isn't the point. When you sell your coin please remove the cert. number.

Thanks!

Tom147

I could not agree more. Over the last 4 or 5 years I've had to go the process 60 to 70 times. Currently have 3 going thru the submit dated pictures part. Through a little investigating, I've seen coins I've purchased and have in hand, yet the cert. is still listed in another registry set. PCGS rules state a person who does not remove a coin when requested can have their complete registry set removed. Yet our hosts DO NOT follow their own rules. Believe me, I've brought this up. I feel if our hosts would follow their own rules, it wouldn't take very long for people to get the message and remove coins when sold.

Tom147

I've gone so far as to take the cert number from the auction site and research to find in what set it resides BEFORE bidding on the coin itself. Doesn't work most of the time as I'm thinking they've already upgraded and the particular coin is no longer listed in their set but still in their inventory.
And the phone scan doesn't work on older holders.

Stooge

@Tom147 said:
PCGS rules state a person who does not remove a coin when requested can have their complete registry set removed. Yet our hosts DO NOT follow their own rules. Believe me, I've brought this up. I feel if our hosts would follow their own rules, it wouldn't take very long for people to get the message and remove coins when sold.

I would love for this to happen. Thanks for your input Tom.

1tommy

The Alexandria Registry Set of Washington Quarters. Well once again I have learned that before I bid I must check out the certificate. The recent sale on GC for this collections is now all stuck in this persons inventory, and trust me it won't happen again. If I had not bid the coin would have sold for 200 bucks less and The Alexandria Registry Set seller might have than learned a lesson, Now if there Dead I understand but if there still alive thanks for screwing us all over. I do not own a cell phone with a camera and no digital camera and now own a coin I can't even put in my set. From this point on I will not bid on any coins that are in someone else's set or inventory......screw them.

alaura22

I have been talking about this for a long time but the auction houses don't seem to do anything about it
Right now I have 6 coins in my watchlist that are registered to sets and probably will NOT place any bids on them since I can't contact the owners through the registry.
About a month ago there was about 10 coins that were in a registry set, the set was open so I could see who owned them. He had contact available so I sent him an email through the registry and told him that I was looking at his coins in the auction but unless he removed them I would not bid. Later that day he responed to me and removed them. I won 4 of them