Coins Stuck in No Mans Land.....
keoj
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I have a couple of coins stuck in no mans land and wanted to reveiw the problem and potential solutions with the "board".
Here goes:
I have a couple of recognized variety coins. These coins are recognized and denoted by a prefix of 9 in front of the 4 digit PCGS coin number. However for the series that I collect, PCGS has decided not to recognize these coins as either optional coins in the Registry and has decided not to allow a variety set. Thats cool (although kind of irritating) so I decided to add a second collection which just highlights varieties. I thought that I would just use these coins as a regular date/mm and just add the variety descriptor in the comments section. The problem is that these coins are just not recognized by the registry at all when attempted to go into the registry.
Solutions:
I can send these coins back and have them renumbered with no variety designation. That would allow me to enter them in the Registry. I don't like this idea....one of these coins coins has a pop of 1 in all grades, it seems important.
OR
PCGS could ignore the "9" or "8" prefix and just allow the variety to be accepted as a regular coin (and again, I could just talk about the variety in the comments section). I'm partial to this one....it seems like a minor programming change to do this.
OR
PCGS could add these as optional coins and add a variety set. I don't think that this is going to happen as the series is just not that widely collected.
Comments welcome.
keoj
Here goes:
I have a couple of recognized variety coins. These coins are recognized and denoted by a prefix of 9 in front of the 4 digit PCGS coin number. However for the series that I collect, PCGS has decided not to recognize these coins as either optional coins in the Registry and has decided not to allow a variety set. Thats cool (although kind of irritating) so I decided to add a second collection which just highlights varieties. I thought that I would just use these coins as a regular date/mm and just add the variety descriptor in the comments section. The problem is that these coins are just not recognized by the registry at all when attempted to go into the registry.
Solutions:
I can send these coins back and have them renumbered with no variety designation. That would allow me to enter them in the Registry. I don't like this idea....one of these coins coins has a pop of 1 in all grades, it seems important.
OR
PCGS could ignore the "9" or "8" prefix and just allow the variety to be accepted as a regular coin (and again, I could just talk about the variety in the comments section). I'm partial to this one....it seems like a minor programming change to do this.
OR
PCGS could add these as optional coins and add a variety set. I don't think that this is going to happen as the series is just not that widely collected.
Comments welcome.
keoj
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I wanted to buy a variety or two for my proof Jefferson set as upgrades are getting prohibitively expensive. So I bought a minor double die 1951. I need a glass just to notice the tiny diagnostics. Anyway I bought the thing knowing there would never be a slot for it in my registry set.
I've been very fortunate so far. This is because the sets I want to focus on are pretty accurately represented by registry sets. I enjoy entering my sets into the registry so only have that 1 coin so far in no mans land...
09/07/2006
peacockcoins
keoj
<< <i>keoj- You mention, "One of these coins has a pop 01 in all grades". Well, if that is the case I can understand why PCGS doesn't want to recognize this variety in the Registry. It doesn't sound too fair for the other participants as that would shoot you up to first place (if it was to be a required coin). If it isn't available to others or is extremely rare and unobtainable, than even making it an otional coin seems unlikely. >>
PCGS has one set where one coin has a mintage of one (not pop). They have it as required. There reasoning is that they should reward the one person who owns that one coin. (It is a seated Dime, 1873-CC I think)
Edited to add: They also have required coins in some sets that they have never even graded. A required pop zero coin! Incentive to send one in I guess.