SCRATCHES-PCGS UPDATE

DRUNNER

When I first started submitting coins, I learned from a dealer-friend that it was just a given you put the coin into a thin poly-bag (like the ones apparently used for various illicit drug purchases) and then slip it into the 2.5 x 2.5. Pad it, insure it and you were good to go. Now I see from the PCGS site the recommendations against flips that can damage a coin. Are there really submitters out there that will drop a decent coin raw into a flip and ship it??? Those poly bags are about a buck for 200 of them . . .

It struck me as weird . . .

Oh . . and yes, my local shop sells a LOT more poly bags to guys who can't focus their eyes than to legit coin nerds.

When poly bags are outlawed . . . only outlaws will have poly bags.

DRUNNER
(don't get queasy looking at the icon)

earlwbollinger

Yeah just what one needs.
Get pulled over bye the police and get arrested for having drug paraphenalia on you.
Them poly bags are dangerous.

airplanenut

Remember, poly bags will haze up proofs

kenoshapete

Okay, I'm confused. I made my first and only shipment to PCGS two days ago and used the flips they provided and sent them off. No where did they mention that I was, or should have put them in a poly-bag... Is that what most of you all do?

Pete

DesertRat

Okay, I'm confused. I made my first and only shipment to PCGS two days ago and used the flips they provided and sent them off. No where did they mention that I was, or should have put them in a poly-bag... Is that what most of you all do?

It was mentioned on the home page for PCGS. The main point they were making is not to slide or push coins into the mylar flips as the mylar can scratch the surface of the coin especially on proofs. They recommend opening the flip and dropping the coin directly in as opposed to pushing it in and opening the flip by doing so.

DRUNNER

Jeremy . . . I also saw the posts and information just awhile ago on the hazing of the proofs. Made me think . . . but I have never had a problem like others. But . . . I am sending in a 1941 Proof Set and certainly don't want them to haze, so I think I'll be careful. However . . I've got several types of poly bags . . I think some may be more likely to haze coins than others . . .

Yes . . . those I know of in this area have always used them (northwest and mountain states). Of course . . I don't know everyone . . .

Good point . . .

DRUNNER

Cameonut

I used to submit proofs in poly bags per the advice of PCGS. I never had a hazing problem on any coin.

In the last year or so, PCGS now recommends that proof coins be submitted without the poly bag. In my last three submissions without the poly bag - I have had no problems.