Saying Goodbye to PCI

ElKevvo

Post away....interesting thread. I have only cracked a couple PCI golds and sent in, I won't crack the other ones as I like the holder history.

K

Coinscratch

@ldhair said:
I have many more still in the process of being graded but I'll stop there unless folks wish to see more of the results.
To me PCI was doing a pretty good job back in those days.

More please.

LukeMarshall

I find the Results interesting, thanks for sharing! Would love to see more

braddick

I am curious if the general consensus is if a grader almost consistently grades a point of two too low is a better grader than the one that almost consistently grades a point or two too liberally?

I think of a math professors who's equations are wrong.
One answers, "2 + 2 =" with a three and the other a five.

BECOKA

@braddick said:
I am curious if the general consensus is if a grader almost consistently grades a point of two too low is a better grader than the one that almost consistently grades a point or two too liberally?

I think of a math professors who's equations are wrong.
One answers, "2 + 2 =" with a three and the other a five.

Checks and balances.......I would rather a grader be consistent than worry about too high or too low.

• With conisistency and if you required at least two graders and took the average of the two+ opinions we would have a stabilized coin economy.

But....thats just a fantasy world. Fatigue sets in and I'm pretty sure the big peice of the equation will never happen. hard to be consistent.

ldhair

The graders have no other choice. They must conform to what ever the service has set as the standard. They may not agree with the standard but the service has control of what they feel is best.

BillJones

I don't have any PCI graded coins. There is one member here who regrets that he left his coins in PCI holders. As it turns out, the insert is not inert and many of his coins have been ruined. Some of them might be restorable.

I think that PCI started out as "Hallmark." It was sold and became PCI. After that, it was sold many times.

BillJones

@braddick said:
I am curious if the general consensus is if a grader almost consistently grades a point of two too low is a better grader than the one that almost consistently grades a point or two too liberally?

I think of a math professors who's equations are wrong.
One answers, "2 + 2 =" with a three and the other a five.

Heritage once had an in-house grading service, which, I believe, was called NCI. It was well known that their standards were lower, but consistently lower. They even had a bids for NCI graded coins on the Grey Sheet at one time.