Name Your Own Grading Company:)

WoodenJefferson

Since you can now purchase your own holders/slabs/encapsulators/entombers on the open market...access to have Kinko's print up a bunch of fancy labels...printers to identify year/type/grade etc., what would the name of your grading service be called?

What graphics might you have on the label?

Where will you sell your marketable selections?

Keep it clean, to an extent.

Gemineye

....B I N G O ..Grading...
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oldcameoproofsguy

GBB

Graded by Brail

WoodenJefferson

Guess I needed to come up with my own...

thecointrader

I'll give you a Top Ten List, in no particular order...



For Coins...

ALGS -- Another Lousy Grading Service (Specializing in an honest name for a dishonest game)

MCGS -- Modern Crap Grading Service (Oh wait, we already have a few of these )

DOGS -- Deliberate Over-Grading Service (or Deliberately Over-Graded Stuff)

UGCS -- U-Grade Certification Service (Has a space right on the form to include the grade you want on the slab)



For Other Antiques...

CRAP -- Certified Rare Artifact Professionals


For Stamp Collectors...

PRESS -- Philatelist Researchers Examining Small Stuff


For Lord Marcovan...

HOLES -- Holed & Over-Looked Examination Service


For Coinhog...

PIGS -- Professionally Inserted Grading Service


For eBay...

CCCS -- Chinese Counterfeit Certification Service

FAKES -- Forensically Altered Key-date Examination Service


Gee, this was fun....




(Edited for typos)

LEAP269

sias

sure it's a 70!

Bear

ACGC (Arbitrary & Capricious Grading Company)

coinmickey

PYGS- Pick Your Grade Service

Dog97

<<<For Coins...

ALGS -- Another Lousy Grading Service (Specializing in an honest name for a dishonest game)

MCGS -- Modern Crap Grading Service (Oh wait, we alredy have a few of these )

DOGS -- Deliberate Over-Grading Service (or Deliberately Over-Graded Stuff)

UGCS -- U-Grade Certification Service (Has a space right on the form to include the grade you want on the slab)>>>




I find that DOGS remark highly offensive, overly reprehensible, slightly despicable, sorta apprehensible not at all humorous, and highly insulting.
On behalf of all the mutts out there I demand an immediate & public apology thread.

Cladiator

I've always flirted with the idea of making a "BAGS" - Bust Attribution and Grading Service. I'd do only Flowing Hair, Draped Bust and Capped Bust coins. Accurate attributions and each side gets it's own grade. The big problem is lack of ability to seal up the slabs, it would be too easy for someone to swap coins.

Barndog

<< <i>I've always flirted with the idea of making a "BAGS" - Bust Attribution and Grading Service. I'd do only Flowing Hair, Draped Bust and Capped Bust coins. Accurate attributions and each side gets it's own grade. The big problem is lack of ability to seal up the slabs, it would be too easy for someone to swap coins. >>



Would you GUARANTEE authenticity?

Cladiator

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<< <i>I've always flirted with the idea of making a "BAGS" - Bust Attribution and Grading Service. I'd do only Flowing Hair, Draped Bust and Capped Bust coins. Accurate attributions and each side gets it's own grade. The big problem is lack of ability to seal up the slabs, it would be too easy for someone to swap coins. >>



Would you GUARANTEE authenticity? >>

Not a chance without having the ability to seal the slab. It would be asking for scam artists to do coin swaps. Even if I could seal them up I don't know if I'd "gaurantee" anything. What the label said would simply be my opinion.

Barndog

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<< <i>I've always flirted with the idea of making a "BAGS" - Bust Attribution and Grading Service. I'd do only Flowing Hair, Draped Bust and Capped Bust coins. Accurate attributions and each side gets it's own grade. The big problem is lack of ability to seal up the slabs, it would be too easy for someone to swap coins. >>



Would you GUARANTEE authenticity? >>

Not a chance without having the ability to seal the slab. It would be asking for scam artists to do coin swaps. Even if I could seal them up I don't know if I'd "gaurantee" anything. What the label said would simply be my opinion. >>



So if you could seal the slab, perhaps listing the coin's weight and NS and EW diameter on the reverse of the slab might be some degree of assurance for a collector that the coin is real? Maybe a photograph of the coin's edge on the reverse of the slab would be a nice touch.

BlindedByEgo

AFAB - Anything For A Buck grading service

thecointrader

<< <i><<<I find that DOGS remark highly offensive, overly reprehensible, slightly despicable, sorta apprehensible not at all humorous, and highly insulting.
On behalf of all the mutts out there I demand an immediate & public apology thread.>>> >>



My most humble apologies to your canine presence.

As a conciliatory measure, I offer to substitute DOGS with the following suggestion...

NAGS -- (another eBay grader) -- Numismatically Altered Grading Service



thecointrader


(Edited for the usual typo. Sure wish we had a spell check around here )

UncleJoe

IMO

Joe.

RichieURich

Cladiator, when I saw you were going to name your grading company "BAGS" - Bust Attribution and Grading Service, I had a completely different thought go through my mind. And I wondered how you were going to differentiate between natural and artificially enhanced. Could you provide more information?

morganbarber

Fully Accredited Grading Service.

kryptonitecomics

RCCS

Rainbow Coin Certification Service

ModernDollarNut

HSGS - Hook a Sucker Grading Service. Rob

flaminio

YSGS

"You Suck Grading Service"

You know who you are....

Cladiator

The obverse label would include the company name BAGS, date, denomination, attribution number, obverse die #, obverse grade, weight in grams to .00, east/west diameter, north/south diameter and some kind of certification number.

The reverse lable would include the exact same informatioin as the obverse with three exceptions. The BAGS would be replaced with some kind of logo, the die number would be for the reverse die and the grade printed would reflect the actual grade of the reverse of the coin.


I wouldn't slab any coins that I knew to have problems such as cleaning, whizzing, tooling, alterations simply because it would be easier for me to not do them than it would be to do them. Being in a BAGS slab would not be a gaurantee of authenticity, it's simply a recording of an opinion. I don't think I would even consider the AT/NT issue as toning wouldn't be something I'd offer an opinion on. Grade and attribution would be the only opinions rendered. It's up to the collector to decide if they think a coin is AT or NT and to decide if the coin is right for them. This service wouldn't be intended for use as a "crutch" to the collector but more of a "tool" they can utilize.





I think someone actually does something similar to this with Early Copper. If memory serves he doesn't use an actual slab and just writes his grade and attribution opinion on a 2x2 paper and slips it into a 2x2 flip with the coin.

DCAM

PGCS - Makes it easy to keyword spam EBAY.

dan8402

<< <i>....B I N G O ..Grading...
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I'm hoping for the coveted BINGO MS74 grade.

Cladiator

You see for this to work though someone would have to give a hoot about my opinion of a coin. That is highly unlikely.

A more likely scenario would be me buying up some coins and putting them in BAGS slabs. Then listing them on eBay with 99¢ starting prices. This doesn't make sense either because I'd most likely lose money and that's not fun.

The most likely scenario would just be me housing and labeling my own personal collection in this way. That may or may not have already happened.

WoodenJefferson

<< <i>Fully Accredited Grading Service. >>



I'm sure you are aware of what this spells?

morgansforever

Something similar to PCGS, like PGCS or PCS.

Conder101

PGCS

MCGS

CCCS

These three already exist. At least three different companies use CCCS.

Prethen

I like how BCGS, Bruce's Coin Grading Service, sounds.

holeinone1972

Try B O K grading service.

If you have fakes it will B O K

If you have doctored coins it will B O K

If you have artificially toned coins it will B O K

If you do not pay your bill for encapsulation it will not B O K

GoldenEyeNumismatics

ASS

another stupid service

ROBERTB

POSGS

Piece of sh!t grading service

flaminio

<< <i>At least three different companies use CCCS. >>

How about CCCCS? CCCCCS? CCCCCCS?

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCS?

Pentimento

CCCP

Aegis3

Let's see here. My hypothetical company would authenticate, photograph, and keep an accessible (to anyone) online database of all coins they have authenticated. It would note any important problems the coins may or may not have, but absolutely would not grade, nor would any coins get slabbed; old-style poer certificates with photos would be used. An explanation as to how the decision of authenticity was reached will always be included on the certificate; how the opinion was reached would be more important than the opinion itself. We would have computers at any show we set up at to make sure that coins sold with our certificates were in fact the one we authenticated; the online database would include close up phots of any "pedigree markers." We would have experts or at minimum access to them for any numismatic object; we would be able to authenticate anything from an Athenian dekadrachm to a 1909-S VDB Lincoln; from an Una and the Lion 5-pound piece to a Boyd Park Lesher dollar; from a Willow tree threepence to an 1861 Clark, Gruber double eagle. Yes, there would be a gaurentee of authenticity and a gaurenteee that any major problems were not missed.

As to the name, I have no clue. Comprehensive Numismatic Authentication Co. would work. Is there a CNAC?

Of course, as long as slabs are issued, this company would have no chance of survival, and that is a very bad thing. It'd be much better then slabs.

morgansforever

Why not just buy modern coins fom the Mint, and slab them yourself. Lets face it most modern stuff isn't that difficult to grade, it either has hits on the surface or it doesn't. Most of my modern stuff is cut and dry, all are 69's. In my book one teeny weeny hit knocks it off the 70 pedestal. Top Shelf Grading Services at your service.

Crackout

CRACKOUT SLAB

"I Slab'em, You Crack'em Out!"


Buy 10 slabs, get a free hammer.

Not responsible for slabs already cracked during shipping.

JJM

MY_OP

Bruceswar

HGS - Honest Grading Service
LCSGS - Lie, Cheat and Steal Grading Service..


And for a serious one...

ACGS - Advanced Coin Grading Service

silverpop

pendulo grading services

classiccoin

prgs...............professional resubmi$$ion grading service


prgs..............pre$idential review grading service


fsgs.............fir$t strike grading service


rsgs............registry $et grading service


krttb............keep re$ubmitting em til they bump grading service

dizzyfoxx

GDOWS Grading Company: Grade Depends On Who Submits.

Grading Tier Levels:

1.) Big time players and auction houses... will receive 2+ grade points above actual grade

2.) Standard dealers who submit often... will receive 1+ grade point above actual grade

3.) The average 'Joe Shmo' submitter... Good Luck!!!

Conder101

<< <i>CCCP >>


A country has used that one.



<< <i>ACGS - Advanced Coin Grading Service >>


Two companiees have used those initials



<< <i>pendulo grading services >>


That would be PGS, and that already exists too.

VamGuy

<< <i>GDOWS Grading Company: Grade Depends On Who Submits.

Grading Tier Levels:

1.) Big time players and auction houses... will receive 2+ grade points above actual grade

2.) Standard dealers who submit often... will receive 1+ grade point above actual grade

3.) The average 'Joe Shmo' submitter... Good Luck!!!

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This would actually be funny if it wasn't so close to reality. Unfortunately, it's remarkably sad.