Is it safe to send your coins to PCGS ?

izzy452

With all the fingerprints, spots and discolorization going on with coin that are recently slabed
by PCGS, do you think it is safe to send in your prize coins for REGRADES or CROSSOVERS?
If these coins have been in holders for a few years and nothing has happened to them, would
you take the chance?

Walt

Russ

My last three submissions came back just fine, and the coins were very close to the grades I expected - a couple even came back higher then I thought they would.

Russ, NCNE

Dog97

I've been wondering the same thing but from what I read on the board the problem is mostly with Modern Mint products, like maybe the new coins haven't had time to stabilize yet.

Russ

<< <i>problem is mostly with Modern Mint products, like maybe the new coins haven't had time to stabilize yet. >>



BINGO! My last three submissions were pulled from the sets and let sit for a couple weeks before going in, and were packaged using SAFLIPS. Prior to this, I was having my share of problems, but was submitting too soon after pulling from the packaging and was using crappy flips.

Russ, NCNE

BigD5

Russ, what did you ever do with all those "crappy" flips? I'll take 'em

Russ

BigD5,

They're fine for circulated stuff, so that's what I use them for now. It's just the proofs that have a problem.

Russ, NCNE

oldcameoproofsguy

I sent four of my Barber proofs in for regrade to get CAM and DCAM designations. They came back fine. But I did hold my breath just a little.



My Barbers

Aaron04

All my submissions have been fine.

Steve27

One of three coins I submitted graded well below my expectation. I believe this was due to improper handling by the PGCS representative I handed it to at the ANA convention. I believe he took the three coins I submitted, wrapped them in the submission form, placed a tight rubberband around them, and then jammed them into a standard PCGS 20-coin slab box. (I would have said something at the time but I was writing down his name when this occurred and only saw it out of the corner of my eye.)