My first PCGS coin grade

NBSQLGeek

Well I was at the Baltimore Show and dropped off a very lovely Silver Eagle. I have compared this with my other Silver Eagle I bought from EBay with a MS69 grade and man that MS 69 was ugly compared to the one Im sending off.

Well got the status of it today and its MS68!!! Total BS something is really wrong the MS69 had visiable flaws I coule spot out.
Im pretty disappointed at this how one coin graded MS69 with more flaws.

If PCGS damaged the coin there in house what can I do>?

FrattLaw

Ah, welcome to the frustration of submitting coins to PCGS or any reputable grading service that is. Sorry about the MS68, but 69s are real tough to get.

Michael

MW Fattorosi Collection

gmarguli

Welcome to the club.

NBSQLGeek

<boggled>

MS69 PCGS sure doesnt look better than my now MS68 PCGS.

They need to get that PC grading system off that Windows 3.11 operating system.

MUAHAHHAHA

Russ

NBSQLGeek,

As you can see, many of us feel your pain.

Russ, NCNE

DCAMFranklin

Do you think the maker of that MS-69 Eagle (almost certainly from a bulk submission) paid more or less than you have this year in PCGS submission fees? Think there may be a correlation?

TheNumish

I feel your pain.

Two things could have happened.

1)The coin you saw in the MS-69 holder changed after being graded. I have noticed many of my silver eagles that I had in MS-69 holders growing white spots. Was the coin you saw just ugly or did it have marks? If it's eye appeal issue the coin might not have looked like that when it was graded.

2)PCGS standards have become more strict than they were a few years ago. I've had such a hard time getting MS-69 coins on Silver Eagles I've given up on trying.


IMHO playing the modern game is a numbers game. You have to send a bunch of coins in and the ones that work make up for the ones that don't. It's hard to make it work just sending in a coin here and there.

Paultjuno

I suspect I will feel your pain soon as well. Just submitted my free four for submission. Have a group of another 15 ready to go soon. And it may suck to have a coin come back proof 68. Just think of what it's like to send in a set of coins to have them all body-bagged for cleaning. That would really hurt! And remember proof 68 is pretty danged good, it's just that we've got so demanding of modern proofs that anything below MS/PR 69 is garbage is collectors minds. As for me .... most of my registry set coins of moderns are purchased already slabbed. Saves me the time and trouble of trying to make one from scratch.

Of course that's just my opinion .... I could be wrong.

NBSQLGeek

I feel I will begin to purchase already slabbed MS 69 for my personal registry collection and just do air tite holders for the rest and stash them away in my safe.

I would really love to have a full silver eagle set of MS 69.

Ill just do a bunch of ebaying for slabbed coins.

DAMN RUSS!!

I would be so mad.

Well for me its see what happens, and I know not to submit. I cant fight the system so Ill just buy slabbed. My co workers definately noticed my reactions when I saw the MS68 status.

HHAHA thank god it was a 2001 Silver eagle and not something really important.

Pushkin

Yep,

It's painful alright - there is no justice and no truly reliable grading service. The old coin slab crap shoot.