The Price of Re-Holdering.

Clankeye

I have a nice PCGS65FBL Franklin that I can almost make out behind all the scratches on the holder. So let's have it re-holderd! Let's see... $9.00 to send it registered/insured to PCGS. $5.00 for the new holder... and only $12.50 (new rates) to mail it back to me. So for the bargain price of $26.50 I can have my coin in a shiny new holder! Oh yeah, let's add .79 cents for a mailing envelope... $27.29.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

kieferscoins

Go to a major show and have PCGS re-holder the same day for $10.00.

I did that once, I finally got it back 21 days later.

Cameron Kiefer

cdmead

Meguire's plastic polish should fix that right up.

You should be able to find it at auto parts or hot rod/customizer type shops.

Clankeye

Okay, add $300.00 for airline ticket. $310.00.

Getting better.

Placid

The $27.29 is sounding like a bargain now

Find someone else who wants to get some reholdered and team up.

kieferscoins

Add in all the other coins you may buy, the auction experiences at night, the friends you meet, the educational exhibits, talks etc. Worth it. I am going to FUN this year because the few hundred dollar ticket is far out weighed by the week of fun I will have.

Cameron Kiefer

Clankeye

I would love to go to a big show, Cameron. It just isn't in the cards right now. I have flown down to Long Beach before, and when the ANA was in Seattle one year, I was in Heaven. I would love to get to a major show and meet some of you.

Placid

Send it to someone going to the show with some money.

coinguy1

Calnkeye - you said "Okay, add $300.00 for airline ticket. $310.00."

If you're going to go to the trouble, you might as well do it with/by (first) class. Make that $1600.

Clankeye

Well heck, Mark. Let's just toss in a case of champagne and some caviar... some attractive arm-candy from the region and make it an even $10,010. That coins looking better by the minute.

CalGold

There are products on the market for removing scratches from plastic. Try Tap Plastics or a similar store. Somewhere I saw a post from someone who has had success using Brasso.

CG

Clankeye

CalGold--
Yes, I have used Brasso to good effect on some slabs. This one is dead, though. It's gone to the Land of Slabs That Must be Euthanised.

Who would have thought though, to get rid of the scratch would take so much scratch?

tjkillian

PCGS will reholder a coin for only $5.00 when they are at a coin show.

Tom

LucyBop

Or just sell Lucy the Franklin and your troubles are over.

TWODOGS

I have been meaning to ask this question and here is as good a place as any.

I also have a coin to be reholdered. An 1883 NC Liberty in a PCGS rattletrap MS-63 holder. I am going to send some coins to be undergraded anyway, soooo...if I send the reholder job with them, do I have to send in an extra $12.50 so they can mail my coins in 2 separate packages to the same address?

Also, while we're at it , why does everybody complain about eBay seller's shipping rates and NOBODY mentions how much PCGS is making on shipping? I got my coins back last time in an envelope that PCGS had paid $9 and change to ship. I had sent them $15.60 for shipping.

Clankeye

Good question, TWODOGS. I only recently joined the Collector's Club, and I too would like to know the answer to that. I just sent in a package of coins to be graded, but I was of the impression that since the re-holder would have to be on a seperate invoice, then it would be sent back in a seperate package. So, even sending in the re-holder with other coins would still cost $17.50 minimum.

If you can send in a re-holder along with coins to be graded and have it shipped back with them for no extra shipping, that would make it almost worth doing. I have a feeling you can not, though. Correct?

coinguy1

Recently, we had some invoices combined for shipping, but they still charged the higher rate according to their shipping rate grids, as if the packages had been mailed separately. In their defense, I will say that I called and let them know that we usually used our Fedex account for shipping and I wasn't aware of their shipping fees and they gave us a partial refund.

Placid

According to pcgs no you can not combine invoices for return shipping.

wingedliberty

I have about 300 coins in my collection that are in old style PCGS mini holders, I love the elegant
simplicity of these holders, some have scratches, but I don't mind, it adds character and gives me
a nastalga kick, reminds me about the circumstances of how I got the coin. I am seeing less and less
of these. I collect them and look for them on Ebay and at shows.


Brian.

RegistryCoin

I've seen in my re-holdering that new plastic can be all scratched too. The big price is a new fingerprint. Get the goop.

Endocrinologist

I usually wait until I buildup a couple of coins I want to reholder or until the next submission to save on some of the shipping fees.

Endo

IrishMike

Clankeye: the cost of a ticket $200 (you can use my ATA account), the cost of a room $69 a night, or bring a sleeping bag and you can stay in my room. The chance to meet me, priceless.
Oh yeah bring the slab too.

Flash

"PCGS will reholder a coin for only $5.00 when they are at a coin show"

Based on my experience, PCGS charges $10 for same-day reholdering at a show.

I too have wondered why PCGS charges such high prices for shipping. I can see a higher shipping fee for a box, or even several coins, but I've had to pay the same price for them to send only one slab back to me without a box.

supercoin

Cost of reholdering a single coin: $27.29
Cost of years of painful psychotherapy to correct anal-retentive tendencies: $27,290.00

Post office is open 'til 5:00.

Clankeye

Let's see, as this all has shaken out, I think I will spend the $269.00 dollars and go visit IrishMike at the FUN show. He's a no nonsense, words of wisdom kind of guy. I'm sure that would make the therapy unnecessary, and I could probably just sell him the Franklin while I was there anyway.

Supercoin--who you calling "anal retentive?" I've got a half a mind to pull off my latex gloves and move the phone from it's pre-assigned spot of alignment and call you up. But no, then I'd have to wipe down the cradle with disinfectant.

supercoin

I speak with authority bred of familiarity.

-- Speakerphoner in Savannah