Your Coin is Registered in Another Set

Nysoto

Just wondering how common this is. I recently purchased a coin from a dealer who had the cert number imaged on his website, when I received the coin and entered the cert number, it was registered under another set. I am fairly certain this person has never owned the coin, a fairly scarce overdate, as the slot is now empty on that set, as opposed to an upgrade situation where the person sold the coin. I would bet other coins in this set are cert numbers plucked from websites.

Has this happened to anyone else? How much should I charge this person rent for use of the number?

Bill

foodude

Bill,

Regardless of how it happened, this is easy to fix if you have the coin in your possesion. I had this happen about a year ago, and BJ (at CU/PCGS) quickly fixed the problem. I suggest you send her a PM (just send the PM to "BJ"; I don't recall her e-mail address) and let her know you have a PCGS graded coin, and are have trouble entering it in to the Registry because it seems someone is already using the cert. #.

Greg

Nysoto

Thanks Greg,

I should have noted that I did contact PCGS, who in turn contacted the other set owner, and the coin slot is now empty on his set for that overdate. The coin is now on my set.

Bill

USMC_6115

I wonder how many fake sets are made from people obtaining numbers from Ebay or other auction houses...does this happen?

Russ

Whenever I sell a registry quality coin on eBay, I park it temporarily in a set to thwart the cert number thieves. Then, once the new owner has the coin I delete it.

Russ, NCNE

badger

This happened to me on NGC coins. I've had the coins about a year and finally entered them into the NGC registry and all were still holding places in other's sets. As with PCGS, the situation was quickly remedied when noticed.

raycyca

I've had this happen several times. Some on my part and mostly on other people's ends. Last one was from Hertiage auction last month. Sometimes when I sell a fairly expensive duplicate, I keep the coin registered in my set. After the new owner tells me he/she has the coin, I delete it from my set. What if the coin gets lost in the mail? Now I have the serial number and can alert people to the coin number and PCGS in case it shows back up. I never had this problem, but I like to have this safety cushion, just in case. Ray

mercurynut

Its happened to me a couple of times. Its no big deal to get corrected.

Deb048gold

This happened to me this week. The individual who sold me the coin over E-bay forgot to erase the coin from his set. Just send an e-mail to PCGS when you try to enter the coin. There is an e-mail address.

Worse case you may have to scan the coin and then e-mail to PCGS. They can correct it in 3-days.

ctgreatone

This has happened to me to so now after I paid for the coin and the seller has been notifed that he or she has been paid I enter it in my set. Then if there is a problem I can e-mail them before the coin has left their hands.

Can anyone find a problem with this?

FullStepJeffs

Heck, I screwed the pooch on this one a couple of times... have a few registry sets and forgot to remove them once I sold them... the new owners emailed and that was that...

Steve

joeyuk

I'm guilty as well. Sometimes I'll put a coin in other then the main set. Once when I upgreade I only deleted it from the one set.
On a side note if I sold a coin and it got "lost" in the mail I think I would leave the cert. # in a seperate set in case someone , innocently or not, tried to enter the number.

LALASD4

badger

Just to let you know I lost my NGC password so I never deleted the coins, but I when I got the e-mail from NGC, I did right away let them know that the coins belong to you now.