Another Grading Sob Story - not really

Mowgli

I'm a set collector and recently decided to get ready to sell my SLQs. I have had the set 20+ years and many were purchased raw so I expected my grading skills to suffer some indignity; I was not disappointed. I only tried to slab five coins as many of the XF/AUs and even some MS coins do not warrant the cost of slabbing and then re-slabbing etc (IMO).
The 1921 slabbed as PCGS AU 55 but an identical looking 1919-D was an XF 45 (a dealer in these couldn't tell the difference).
My 1927-s was cleaned; it was. The 1923-s they say was cleaned but looks like a pretty good AU to me and others. The ugliest part was the 1916 originally in an ANACS 50 holder (but admittedly ugly) came back PCGS 40 (methinks a 45 but...). This was my first submission to PCGS (and only the second time I ever had anything graded). I thought they were hard on a couple of the coins and inconsistent (IMO) but it is okay (I guess it has to be). There is nothing new here relative to submission results and I have been reluctant to slab coins but in this case, no one likes to buy key dates any more without them being slabbed.
As I thin my collections I expect to go through this often. Hopefully, it doesn't drive me crazy.

lostincoins

well unfortunately you cant be driven crazy when one already is crazy. All numismatist have a bit of crazy in them or they would never do this. JMHO lol

Type2

I'm still trying to get any coin in a holder that says MS on it. Most of my sub's are coming back in Gen holders. I guess thats life.

ricko

The subjective art of grading.... many try resubmissions when they do not like the initial result.... and the frequency that they get different results support the subjective nature of the process. Of course, you should be sure that the coin is worth the investment, otherwise, as they say in poker, you are throwing good money after bad money... Cheers, RickO