3 for 3 on crossovers today....

FrankinWI

Sent in the coins below for crossovers still in the slabs. The graders must of been having a good day!

PCGS Order Status for Invoice # 340681


LINE # CERT # COIN DATE DENOMINATION VARIETY GRADE
1 21227283 1931-S 5C MS64 was NGC MS64
2 21227284 1921-D 10C VF30 was Anacs VF25
3 21227285 1872 H10C AU55 was Anacs AU50

Date Received: 07/26/2002
Date Shipped: No Date Specified

Frank

Russ

It looks like you have a good eye for grading. Congrats!

Russ, NCNE

BigD5

Not bad. Buff's can be a tough cross, and it's always nice to get the extra 5 points on those circ. grades. Good eye.

darktone

way to go Frank! that gives the rest of us a little hope on our coins. mike

tradedollarnut

Run and buy a lottery ticket - quick!

gmarguli

ttt so maybe we can hear the standard chant about PCGS being more conservative then the other services and that it why PCGS coins bring so much more than the same coin in a different holder.

keets

why is it that members will rant about how PCGS is all over the place and take it as gospel and than slap someone on the back when they get good results?? i don't see how it can be both ways. not to knock your results, more of an indictment of responses. if the general conception is that they miss frequently than the upgrades and crosses you received are really invalid.

my personal feeling is to accept your results as genuine. many will knock crossover attempts and run the crackout theory around and around. i think it's in PCGS's best interest to get a properly graded coin out of a competitors holder and into theirs. and to play devils advocate on the other side of the issue, perhaps PCGS hasn't gotten stricter with their assessments of submissions, perhaps submitters have become a little complacent in the choices of coins sent in and that is starting to be reflected in the grades received.

al h.

wallstreetman

I have an 1899 NGC Morgan I think I will leave in the slab with results like this coming out! Do you think the coins deserved an upgrade? Honestly!

FrankinWI

All coins in this batch were sent in to do nothing except get these coins to crossover into PCGS holders. When I bought the coins I purchased the coins themselves and not the holder with the intent that when/if it came time to sell, they should be an easy crossover to PCGS standards at the current grades and would bring a slight premium in a PCGS slab.
The halfdime at the link below is a good example. I thought when I purchased the coin that it looked better than the AU50 that it was slabbed at.

Halfdime Obverse
Halfdime Reverse

Based on some other results I've received, I don't think that PCGS is out to give higher grades in other companies holders. 2 times in the last year I've received coins back that didn't crossover at the minimum grade specified. I'm either getting better or really lucky!

I wish I had a scan of the 1921D Merc dime that I purchased from a fellow board member that crossed over. It's a beautiful coin, just a few rubs away on the reverse from being graded EF.

Frank

fletch2645

I'm 0 for 7 in the crossover game at PCGS. I have much better luck at cracking them out and submitting them. Out of the last 12 Morgans submitted, only one came back lower, 5 higher, and the rest the same grade. I think I will stick to this strategy in the future.

pmh1nic

FrankinWI

Congrats on your crossover success (and they said it could be done ).

Keets

When I hear member talk about PCGS being all over the place I believe they are speaking relative to getting it right 100% of the time. Add to that the feeling that politics plays a part in whether a coin will cross (meaning whose holder is it in currently and who is submitting the coin) causes members to congratulate a 3 for 3 crossover.

I don't think anybody disputes the fact that PCGS is one of the top grading services. Are that light years ahead of NGC? Not in my opinion but if you read some of the other opinions expressed on the forum some members think PCGS is the Microsoft of grading services (maybe not a good analogy depending on how many times your computer crashed today ).