Success at last!

tradedollarnut

http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/CoinImages.aspx?s=2482

Image after image of the same 1915-D cent in 66RD and 66+RD, and now finally 67RD


The more I see these upgrades on CoinFacts, the more I realize the biggest bargain in numismatics is the really high end for the grade coin where the plastic has negative value

MrEureka

The more I see these upgrades on CoinFacts, the more I realize the biggest bargain in numismatics is the really high end for the grade coin where the plastic has negative value

If the 15-D never upgraded, would it have been a bargain?

keyman64

Do these excess "images" ever get cleaned up? Like the 3 1916-D Mercs and of course this example.

Christos

Knowing that all those images are of the same coin should cause some concern. What about the pop reports?

LoveMyLiberty

25 coins listed
13 are the same coin
all have different certification numbers
all 13 coins no longer in PCGS data base

very interesting

JJSingleton

<< <i>Knowing that all those images are of the same coin should cause some concern. What about the pop reports? >>

The pops today are so out of whack that they are near meaningless.

Brol

My question is: was that coin previously in undergraded slab or now in overgraded slab?

Brol

If you crack that ms67rd one more time - what grade it will be back? 65? 66+? questionable color?

roadrunner

It only took 13 tries?

There's a 65+ in there with a large spittle spot in front of the mouth and another on the dinner jacket. How does that get a +?



<< <i>The more I see these upgrades on CoinFacts, the more I realize the biggest bargain in numismatics is the really high end for the grade coin where the plastic has negative value

If the 15-D never upgraded, would it have been a bargain? >>




Most any coin with a perceptable "chance" to upgrade will no doubt one day do so. It's just a matter of time + submission costs. I suspect that 80-90% of all such higher ends coins will eventually make the higher grade. Never isn't the word I would use. "Eventually" works better. The only thing that circumvents this process is a total change in the current grading system. Even if submitter #1 gives up after 13 tries, the next people that follow will try it another 13 times.

keyman64

But here's the real question....would it sticker?

BryceM

When a coin jumps a half-grade from a $12k coin to a new $60k coin (Price Guide Values, with no auctioned examples) there's lots of incentive to keep submitting. The grading fees are no big thing when the potential payout is so high.

On the other hand, if it was already a finest known and is still the finest known in a different holder, what it would actually sell for might not have changed all that much........

Wabbit2313

Time to buy high end Gold CAC coins apparently.

That coin looks great and 67 seems fair, at least to me. LINK

coinbuf

<< <i>Time to buy high end Gold CAC coins apparently.

That coin looks great and 67 seems fair, at least to me. LINK >>



At this level it's all about the luster which I'm sure is great but not well depicted in this photo.

valente151

Looks like the submitter gave up on the show grades and finally got it through at the office.

DCW

Certainly looks 67 from the pics.

shylock

Link

Nice tracking thread TDN, I miss those. Coinfacts makes it easier now.

As LoveMyLiberty alluded to 13 of the top 14 coins listed are the same coin.
You see this a lot on Coinfacts now, but that may be the all time record.

oih82w8

I can understand a few repeat tries, but...did you keep the information inserts (return them to PCGS) to have the "used-to-be's" removed from the registry to reduce the population and possibly increase the value?