Does PCGS take pics of all Express submissions?

Manorcourtman

Did I read this somewhere? With Express level submissions they take pics of all the coins??? Maybe I'm losing it??

MsMorrisine

secure plus, yes.

WingedLiberty1957

If the coin is pretty or striking enough, your coin will get photographed for CoinFacts and displayed on the CoinFacts website ... even if you dont buy the PCGS TrueView photo service. However if you want a photo, you are safer paying $10 for a TrueView photo as something that you think should be photographed for CoinFacts might not be.

It's interesting that the CoinFacts photos do "transfer" so to speak over to the Cert Verification page and to the PCGS Registry. However they wont appear in the official TrueView database.

CoinFacts photos as well as TrueView photos are mostly shot by Phil Arnold, so there is negligible difference in quality. The primary difference is the CoinFacts image is on a pure white background with no lettering, unlike the TrueView photo that has the Cert Number and the PCGS logo.

Note that both of these photos are quite different from the PCGS Secure Plus "fingerprint" photos which are shot automatically for Secure Plus coins. This last type of image is typically terrible looking but is made to identify the coin for security purposes (these fingerprint images are typically too ugly to be gazed upon by humans)