Surprising Submission Results!

FrattLaw

I must be too hard on my coins or PCGS is getting softer for the holidays. Submitted Ecomony on December 2nd. Nice turnaround time!


COINS My Est. Grades PCGS Grades

1 1981-S 1C Type 1 PR63 PR68DC
2 1981-S 5C Type 1 PR65C PR68DC
3 1981-S 10C Type 1 PR68DC PR69DC
4 1981-S 25C Type 1 PR65C PR68DC
5 1973-S 25C PR67DC PR68DC
6 1973-S 25C PR69DC PR69DC
7 1979-S 50C Type 1 PR67DC PR69DC
8 1979-S 25C Type 1 PR69DC PR69DC
9 1979-S 5C Type 1 PR69DC PR69DC

All the 81s were submitted thinking they were Type IIs. They were hazy and toned and I'm surprised at the grades they got. I guess I got to look at the mintmarks harder. I know type II SBAs surprisingly. Just got one back on a different submission as a PR68DCAM - all came from the same set.

I'm packing up my next shipment and sending it out the day after Christmas.

Just thought I'd share.

Michael

dpoole

Congrats, Michael.

I do think PCGS is being more consistent these days.

Placid

Stop running the pop's up

IndianHeadMan

Man, what a rip. I sick and tired of PCGS not grading consistantly. They need to step up and give these coins the grades they deserve. I expect you to call the head man and demand that he looks at your coins and gives then the proper grade. It's things like this that make a joke out of the grading system.

kieferscoins

PR63 your grade and a PR68DCAM theirs? Man, you must have some tough standards! Good submission and I am happy for you. I submitted some in the economy class (not moderns) and were received the same day. Hopefully they will be done soon.

Cameron Kiefer

beartracks42

Michael,
Nice results. I was quite interested in your statement regarding the 81's aas being submitted as type-2's. I had the same result with a 81 Kennedy lately. I have compared my coin's mint mark at 30X stereoscope with one of my friends PCGS 81-S type-2 and with the mintmark on my type-2 Lincoln and they are very much the same. They for darn sure are not a type-1. I am going to take them to a show next year where PCGS is present and see what they say.

RGL

Nice grades, who do you know, insofar as the turnaround time, at least? My economy submission has been in since NOV. 19 AND NO GRADES YET!

FrattLaw

I'm a little surprised by the Type I designation as well. I fully believe there are actually 3 types for the 81 proofs. The ones I submitted are certainly not Type Is. However, subsequent to my submission I did find another 81 proof set and with a Type II SBA, Quarter and Nickel. These are without question Type IIs and are different from the previous coins submitted.

Does anyone else know of a potential Type III?

As for my turnaround times, I don't know anyone PCGS, but for some reason lawyers always seem to get better service My doctor always says to his staff to give me the "Litigation Prevention Special Treatment"

Michael

danglen

WOW, nice grades. You want to send mine in for me?

beartracks42

Michael,
I also believe that there are more than two types of mintmarks for the 1981 proof coins, or at least a variation of the type-2. My coin has a mintmark very very similar to the type-2, but the PCGS senior grader called it a type-1 because "the type-2 is flat" and mine was somewhat rounded, even though it does not in any way resemble the type-1 mintmark shape. This is very confusing to me, that is why I plan to take all of these coins to PCGS. I will take them to Baltimore in July if I can't get to them sooner.

chiefbob

Way to go, Michael! If you reversed the grades, that's what would have happened to me.

Regarding the Type 1 vs. Type 2, I posed the question on the forum a while back. Members were kind enough to point me to some very educational links that had nice, clear, large photos of both varieties on the Susan B. I studied them intently, and then got out my 1979, 1980 and 81 proof sets. Two of them were very clearly Type 1s, and the other sure looked like the Type 2 I had been studying. I made a bunch of comparisons, and confidently submitted it but it ultimately came back as Type 1.

Beartracks42: It would be great if you post the results of your Baltimore show experience.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

Bob

gmarguli

Submitted Ecomony on December 2nd. Nice turnaround time!

Then where the hell are my coins that were submitted on 11/19? Where are other people's coins that were submitted earlier than that?

Do submissions actually go in order anymore?