PCGS slab error- should I fix it?

bigole

I got a modern gold coin back yesterday in MS69, but the coin is in the holder backwards. The reverse is facing front, the obverse is facing back.

I'm sure I can get them to fix it, but should I?

Maybe a dumb question, but I'm just curious. Does someone collect PCGS errors?

commoncents05

Not an error, PCGS will do this upon the request of the submitter.

-Paul

OPA

Not unusual and not an error, nor rare. As mentioned above, the choice is up to the submitter.

I suppose you could resubmit it and have it reslabbed, and pay the reslabbing fee.

steveben

what coin is it? they probably did that because they feel the reverse best represents the coin. i have had this happen to me on a couple of occasions when i did not request it. usually i see a lot of toned morgans this way because the toning looks nice on the reverse. the coins they did this to for me are a bechtler dollar and a canadian maple leaf.

BAJJERFAN

Look up the coin on eBay and see if they are all slabbed like yours. If not then yours was probably a mistake. IMO one would have to be really really extremely anal to spend the time and $$ to have it reholdered.

bigole

Thanks. It's not the normal way of presenting it.

I'll just keep it.

I went to the FUN luncheon in Orlando this year and get a slab of a 20 cent Euro coin, and later someone paid me $20 for it, so I thought I would ask.