What is Your Greatest Upgrade ??

Ed62

What is the greatest upgrade (PCGS, NGC and ANACS only):

1.) That you have personally achieved ---

- - - a.) Measured by grade level (e. g. 55 to 58 is ONE grade level) --

- - - b.) Measured by the increase in value --

2.) That you have ever (reliably) heard of --

- - - a.) By grade level --

- - - b.) By increased value --

tjkillian

I had an 1854 half dime that went from AU-58 to MS-63. That would be four levels.

Tom

tradedollarnut

By grade level: WLH AU58 to MS64.
By dollar level: First hand knowledge of several in the $100,000 range.

Ed62

Tom;

We will have to give you that one even though QDB himself is often quoted - "an AU-58 is really an MS-63 with a rub".

Is a phantom rub worth 4 upgrades??

itsnotjustme

Same for level and value. 1930 SLQ MS64FH to MS65FH.

While not an upgrade, I'm always proud of raw $2 clad Ike to PCGS MS67 four figure coin.

oreville

As we have said before, a half (even a WLH) of a tradedollarnut is better than no tradedollarnut at all!

I have heard and seen one of the 1804 silver dollars constantly moving up in grade. It might not be finished?????

Ed62

Re: Upgrading 1804 dollars - -

Hairlines have been known to fade away with time.

oreville

Ed62: Must be the new hairdo?

idocoins

Greatest upgrade? Going from married to single oppps wrong thread

Baley

Bought this as an ANACS F12 (variety unattributed)





Now it's an NGC VF20, and documented as the most recently verified new die variety







estimated value increase: 20,000%

techeff

We will have to give you that one even though QDB himself is often quoted - "an AU-58 is really an MS-63 with a rub".

Is a phantom rub worth 4 upgrades??

When it comes to value, YES!

braddick

PCI VF25 early Commemorative upgraded to PCGS AU50. I was hoping it would stay the same instead. It ended up being too good for my low grade set.

pursuitofliberty

As a collector of original sliders for about 17 years now, I have been pleased that some are seen not as sliders at all anymore, but have found there way into PCGS holders as 62's and 63's. I always knew I was picky, but it has been a nice bonus when having these graded to get more MS coins than bodybags.

boyhowdy

I bought an AU half dime that ANACS slabbed PR60.

Steve

bearcave

The one I just made, 1939 D Mercury from a MS 65 to a MS 67 FB PCGS.

roadrunner

Bought a stone cold raw MS64+ 1838-0 dime in 1988 that was first graded as an NGC 64 ($7000), then dropped to a PCGS-63 ($3500 ouch!), and then finished out as an NGC-65 a month later ($15000). sold the coin over the phone sight unseen as a pop1 highest graded. This was 16 years ago! Hence you can see the obvious problem with grading services. The coin was really worth about $7500 all along. A piece of plastic said otherwise 66% of the time.

Jim Swan told me of an 1839 PCGS 62 No drapery half that sold in the 2000 or 2001 FUN sale for around $7200. It somehow got bumped into a PCGS 64 holder and was later sold for around $40,000. I feel bad for the person that now owns this coin. I had seen the coin as a 64 and it was not very pretty considering 20% of the luster was missing.

roadrunner

haletj

icg 63rb 26-s Lincoln to pcgs ms64rb

segoja

Had one coin grade MS63 at PCGS worth about $10 subesquently graded MS66 worth about $7500.

Incidentally I bought the coin in a 65 holder at the same time baoght another in 66. The 65 was nicer, so I knew it was a matter of time.

Well worth the wait.

Coin is an Ike.

boiler78

Ed
Your icon coin was a pretty good upgrade. It went from a 65 to a 66 ultra cam.

Mark

partagas

1909 S VDB go from AU 55 to PCGS MS 63

BigMoose

1903 Barber Quarter. Bought it as a PCGS PR67 for double 67 bid from a close dealer friend, cracked it and sent it to PCGS where it graded PR68Cameo. And it is very nearly a deep cameo. Still one of the most stunning proof Barber Quarters I have ever seen.

lordmarcovan

I paid around EF money for a 1904 $20 in an old PCI green label MS62 holder last year, cracked it and submitted it to PCGS at FUN this January, and it came back MS64.

By grade level, my biggest was a Trade dollar that went from PCI VF35 to NGC EF40.
By increase in value, my biggest was the 1904 $20 mentioned above.

PS- just noticed you'd said "PCGS, NGC, and ANACS only". Oh, well. All of my best upgrades seem to have been from older PCI green-label holders, oddly enough. But I've never been a big player in the crackout, crossover, or submissions game. Most of my coins in plastic were already there when I bought them, and they stay in the same holders.

majorbigtime

Bought an 1901 S quarter in an anacs "good details, scratched, net G 04 holder", cracked it out (my only crackout), and got back in a PCGS G06 holder!!!

Numismanic

My greatest and only upgrade so far is my 1935-D Buffalo nickel. It was an MS65 in an old green holder and I sent in for a regrade and it came back MS66.

rays

Two, both PCGS:
1. High-relief Saint from MS63 to 64
2. 1796 Draped Bust dollar, bought raw from a Superior Sale as AU50. Initially slabbed by PCGS AU50, upgraded upon re-submission to AU55 (about $5000 increase in value).

billboat

It wasn't an upgrade in the TPG sense but several years ago I was looking for a Barber half for my type Half collection and stopped in at a local dealers' during my lunch hour. I had a non-collecting friend with me and I bought a 1903-O Barber Half in what was marked EF+. Paid $225 and my friend looked at me like I was nuts--but I thought it looked at least AU. Send it to NGC last year hoping for AU53-55 and it came back MS63. My best buy to date-- picked up at least $1000 on that deal. Picked up an 1806 bust half from the same shop for F12 money and got VF20 from ANACS. No, I won't tell you where.