PCGS Collectors Club Rookie Question

illini420

Did a quick search, but couldn't find any current answers... too bad the Q&A forum doesn't seem to work...

Anyways, I'm thinking of joining the Collector's Club Platinum so I can start submitting coins!!!

Was waiting to join until I had my 8 coins ready to go first. So far I have 6 raw U.S. gold coins (all relatively common and under the $3k limit each). I also have a bunch of U.S. coins in NGC slabs a few of which i was thinking of crossing over.

Would I be able to submit the 6 raw gold coins and 2 NGC slabbed coins for crossover as my 8 free submissions??? Can't figure out from the website if you can mix up submission types like that or not. Thanks in advance for your help.

Tootawl

I'm pretty sure that you would have to crack out the 2 from the NGC slabs and send them in raw.

Bochiman

All 8 need to be the same type (8 crossover or 8 raw, etc)

Texast

The best thing to do is call customer service (make sure you get a name when you do) and ask them about that. PCGS has changed some of the rules over the past few years so it is best to get it from them. If they say they will do it make sure to include a note in the submission with the date time and person you talked to. It may save you some headaches later.

BTW, I would not crack the NGC's unless you are sure it will cross at the same grade or better, there are all kinds of horror stories on the board of people playing the cracking game just to get a Body Bag for altered, artificially toned or cleaned coins that will never make it back into a slab. Sometimes deserved, sometimes not.

illini420

thanks for the info, i'll make a call next week just to confirm. i'll be able to find some others to submit raw if needed. no cracking of the ones I have in mind, pretty high graded NGC coins that are worth much more in their current NGC grade than in a grade lower PCGS. worst case I can throw in a couple of raw first spouse coins as it seems that about 1/3 of those or so have been getting 70s.

Thanks again!!