At what stage will SEGS; ANACS; PCI NOT grade a Damaged coin?

braddick

I had a mutilated Barber half that would have graded out XF40 or so if it wasn't for severe damage all over the obverse and reverse. On a lark I sent it to PCI for grading. I was looking forward to them trying to fit in all the descriptors this one would need: "Bent"/ "Corroded"/ "Scratched"/ "Cleaned"/ and on and on.
PCI red labeled it but cheated. They simply had on the insert: "Mutilated". (Yes, I felt cheated...)

This Barber got me to thinking though: at what point would ANACS NOT grade a problem coin? What if it was holed; bent; cleaned and damaged?

Or, if the coin is identifyable, SEGS and ANACS and PCI will grade it out, no matter what? Have you ever had a coin bodybagged from these Services (other than for counterfeit)?

cdmead

From what I've seen, the only two things ANACS won't grade are Questionable Authenticity and PVC damage.

I have no idea about SEGS or PCI.

Send it to ACKugrade. Sounds like one of their MS65 gems to me.

gmarguli

For ANACS and SEGS I don't think there is any level where they won't slab the coin. As long as they can tell it is genuine then they will slab it.

paigowjohnny

I know ANACS won't do coins with "active" PVC...but otherwise, if it's genuine and they can tell what it is, I think they'll grade it.

supercoin

Didn't you try (unsuccessfully) to get one of Bert Hickman's electromagnetically shrunken coins slabbed?

braddick

Supercoin- Yes I did. I guess that would be another coin PCI won't grade even though it is authentic. (Neat note was attached from a PCI grader stating the coin was real but he didn't know "what the hell happened to it".

Thinking more about this- I sent in a grouping of about a dozen or so a year and a half ago and among the 'coins' was a authentic Hobo nickel. PCI wouldn't slab it either. It even had the 1926 date, so that would have been no excuse.

BigD5

I don't have too much to add to this post, but while we're or you are talking about PCI, I saw some blatantly obvious problem coins in the "no problem" green slabs from PCI, this past weekend. It's a darn shame. One buffalo nickel that had a very attractive obverse, had a bunch of deliberate scratches on the bison, looked like some "almost grafitti", if you can understand that. The other coin was a bust half dollar with a scribed X in the obv. field........how do you slab a coin like that without mentioning that type of problem.
I guess the better question, is how can the dealer have those in his case, and show them to me with a straight face.

coppercoins

I thought if they could jam it into a slab, PCI would slab anything.

braddick

PCI sent back, about two months ago, a submission I had with some Gallery Mint "coins" and such (mostly nonsense). It was returned with a refund, including my postage, and a note stating PCI no longer grades replicas and reproductions.

That now only leaves SEGS and ICG (for some of it, like Concept Dollars).