San Marino Grades, was it worth it?

Yousri

I just got the grades Cert. # 9027144:


LINE # CERT # COIN DATE DENOMINATION VARIETY COUNTRY GRADE
1 40058943 2003-R 5 Euro Olympics SMARINO PR68DC
2 40058944 2003-R 10 Euro Olympics SMARINO PR69DC
3 40058945 2003-R 20 Euro SMARINO PR69DC
4 40058946 2003-R 50 Euro SMARINO PR68DC
5 40058947 2003-R 2 Scudi Nostradamus SMARINO PR68DC

Date Received: 07/29/2004
Date Shipped: No Date Specified

Was it worth it to slab them.
What do you think?

Thanks

drjules

So 2 out of 5 went PR69 and the other three went PR68, sounds like a reasonable haul to me. Did you expect them all to go PR69DCAM?

This raises the question of proof moderns going to PCGS though - it seems to me as though everything from a US mint proof set in the last few years will grade PR69DCAM and you very rarely if ever see PR68DCAM moderns on ebay, but the darkside things (like your san marino set or proof British sovereigns) get PR68 as oftern as they get PR69.

Dr J

Yousri

I really expect them all to be PR69DCAM even imagined that they might go a little up to 70. They all looked very 70 to me, but I still need a lot to learn in grading coins.
But it seems that PCGS is really tough on the darkside coins.
Well Not bad after all. I still have all the boxes and COA, I can alwyas take them out and replace them in their boxes.

tonyhar

I would agree with Julian, Darkside moderns are difficult to get PCGS to grade at 69, US fine no problem.
They might need more experience?

drjules

Do you have any photos?

Dr J

Yousri

Not yet, they just shipped it today.
I will post photo when I get them
Still don't believe some got 68

Askari

<< <i>But it seems that PCGS is really tough on the darkside coins. >>

I'm not sure whether it's that or the experience base they have to draw on. Last time I checked, I don't recall their advertising a single grader as a world coin specialist.