Can Someone Please Tell Me a Good and Respectable Currency Grading Service?

Rampage

I know this is not coin related, but I thought I would get a better shot at an answer here than the currency forum.

Thanks.

kamehameha00

Currency Grading Certification

Rampage

Thank you for the link.

Richard.

Jody526

Respectable?

Can't think of any.

Conder101

There are at least five currency grading services (Plus at least two defunct ones). In addition to CGC mentioned ealier there are
CCGS (Only grades Canadian Currency
RCGS Rare Currncy Grading Service Been around for two years but company is not well known.
CGA Currency Grading & Auhentication The oldest of the services currently operating.
The last service is PCG Professional Currency Grading It seems to be the newest of the services and at he moment I don't have a web site for them.

CGC uses a hard plastic holder like coin slabs use. The other four use an oversized mylar holder with the note sealed in the lower section and the label sealed in the upper.

2ndCharter

As a 25 year veteran of collecting paper money, I'll give you my honest opinion - THEY'RE ALL CRAP!!!!!

Cladiator

My opinion of currency "slabs" =

291fifth

Currency dealers operate in the "old mode". They hate slabbed currency. Currency is one grade when they sell and another grade when they buy. It's just like buying "raw" coins. It's one reason why I abandoned currency collecting in the mid-90's, a time when there was no currency slabbing.

dorkkarl

certifying currency is even more useless then certifying most coins, becuase currency has serial #'s that can be traced, & anything of a very significant investment, you can determine it's current value by tracing it's sales history.

K S

2ndCharter

Right on the money, Karl! It's hilarious to see a note show up in one auction as an AU with pinholes and then, several months later show up in another auction as a Crisp CU. This actually happened with a note a couple of years ago when it first appeared in a Stacks auction and then reappeared in a CAA-Heritage sale. Incidently, the note was purchased at the Stacks sale by the head of the "leading" currency grading service.