Q & A Answers posted - Thanks Carol and Rick
DHeath
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Three full pages of pretty good questions. I really appreciate taking the time you did to indulge my questions. I really enjoyed the answers, as well as the other members questions. Kudos!
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Three hears for ya!
Cameron Kiefer
There is quite a bit of good information, but there is also plenty of non-answers and issue-skirting. No real addressing of the wildly inaccurate price guide; no real response to the vanished 70DCAM grade.
It's a good first effort, but I'd prefer more specifics in some of the responses, and a little less CYA.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort and also picked up a ton of new knowledge. I just found some of the responses somewhat less than fulfilling and short on specifics.
I'm sure that PCGS could point to a handful of modern commemoratives that have received the 70 grade recently. But, to focus on the Kennedy proof series, that doesn't explain why we've seen one for the last three years, yet in the three years prior to that 118 were granted the grade.
Maybe the questions just weren't specific enough to elicit specific responses?
Russ, NCNE
I agree with you that some answers seemed to miss the point of the question. But think of the time and effort that went into this endeavor. I know that I learned a lot from the work and I truly appreciate it. (I also learned a bit from the answers that slid by the questions....)
I think asking for more Q/A to be added weekly is asking too much (though it would be great!) but perhaps new Q/A's could be added at a somewhat less frequent than weekly interval?
Mark
I learned a bit about PCGS's copper color grading. It isn't a flat 5% rule but is based more on a comparison to every possible BN to RD shade in the spectrum, with RB taking up the middle 80%. This is even more ambiguous than I thought it was, but with borderline coins I imagine it all comes down to gut feelings of the graders on any given day.
Every week would be a bit too much but we're trying for every 4-6 weeks.
Russ:
Regarding your Price Guide question.
Honestly, had I sat with Rick I would have dumped it because it is not an area he deals with.
If you go the bottom of the main page you will se a list of contributing consultants.
If you have questions or suggestions, send them over to Charlie and he can get it to the appropriate person.
Carol
Robbie Linn
My Complete PROOF Lincoln Cent with Major Varieties(1909-2015)Set Registry
The thing that surprised me most is that PCGS records the cert numbers for holdered coins that fail to cross. Had he simply been interested in re$ubmi$$ion$, he would have said something to the effect of "The decision to cross or not to cross a coin is based on the merits of the individual coin".
I wanted to thank Carol and Rick as well!
I am surprised, but I can't think of any really good questions to ask at the moment!
JJacks
I was appreciative of the dialog (dialogue)...
Richard Courson
I don't remember that question off hand but the cert number is generated prior to any graders looking at your coin, this is how we track it, in addition to your invoice number. When a grader looks at your coin and enters their opinion, they enter it by that cert number (Rick, correct me if I got any of that wrong) .
Carol