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first grade guarantee submission, considering the shake ups at p.c.g.s., should i be nervous ?

Very expensive coin with great eye appeal. When i baught it i never considered sending it back because i liked the coin and the eye appeal hooked me. I aso knew that if i wanted assurance on the technical grade i could submit it for the guarantee process. The cost of the submission was 42.50 which includes 17.50 for return postage and insurance.

If p.c.g.s. really looks at my coin they will either reafirm the grade or lower the technical grade and pay me some cash [I have already told them i'm not interested in selling the coin back to them, if they down grade it i still want my coin back]

Question is, should i be nervous that with all the controversy and time pressure from being short handed, will David give my coin a real fair examination like it would have gotton before all the recent shake ups happened ? What do you think ?
The President claims he didn't lie about taxes for those earning less then $250,000 a year with public mandated health insurance yet his own justice department has said they will use the right of the government to tax when the states appeals go to court.

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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From my experience with grade guarantee riview the coin has to be a very blatant error before they will downgrade it, if the coin is borderline with eye appeal your chances are slim. The most likely scenerio is you will get the coin back at the same grade and feel more comfortable about the assigned grade. Sounds like you will have mixed emotions either way. Good luckimage
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Agree 100% with Boiler78. Rest assured that you will have your coin back as is. Perhaps we should bet some Royal Salute??? image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    barberlover,

    The one guarantee I had to do was personally reviewed by David Hall and was resolved better than I had anticipated it would be. It did take a bit of time because of everything that is going on at PCGS and how busy he is.

    I should note, though, that mine was a very blatant error.

    Russ, NCNE
  • lavalava Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭
    What am I missing here? You are resubmitting in anticipation of a downgrade? At the same time, you are touting the coin's eye appeal? I don't get it. What is it you are trying to accomplish?
    I brake for ear bars.
  • barberloverbarberlover Posts: 2,228 ✭✭
    Lava member, I just now read your responce to my post. What my purpose is to have the grade reaffirmed from a technical point of view, not eye appeal. I baught this coin as a collector not an investor. I love the eye appeal of this coin, but when i got it thought it might possibly been over graded from a technical point of view, some might say, why keep the coin if there is such an issue use the return privledge, but as a collector, haven't you ever seen a coin with great eye appeal that you thought got the benefit of the daught technically, but still loved the coin ? If you've never been in that situation, then i guess you wouldn't understand why i kept the coin and why i'm applying the grade gaurentee. barberlover
    The President claims he didn't lie about taxes for those earning less then $250,000 a year with public mandated health insurance yet his own justice department has said they will use the right of the government to tax when the states appeals go to court.


  • << <i>but as a collector, haven't you ever seen a coin with great eye appeal that you thought got the benefit of the daught technically, but still loved the coin ? >>



    Yes but in that case I'm keeping the coin simply because I love it. Why spend good money to have someone else tell me something that might make me less delighted in keeping it?

    It always amazes me to read threads from people who have found a coin they have been searching for years for, and they are delighted in the condition because they have never seen one that nice. Then when it comes back from a service a point less than they were hoping for they immediately dump it and go back to their long quest for that one point better specimen. Even more curious is how happy they are when they finally find one in a slab with that one extra point. . . but with less eye appeal than the one they dumped!
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Eye appeal overwhelms technical grade these days. Eye appeal not only is the largest part of a technical grade (2/5th's) but also has taken on a life of it's own as far as what holder they will put a coin into.

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