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JcldJcld Posts: 449 ✭✭✭
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Hey all. The coin hasn't been sent back yet, but online they indeed confirmed that it is the 1918/7 overdate. Still a VF25, but there you go. I am very impressed with the PCGS process for the reconsideration. 1 phone call and they set everything up. Can't wait to get it back in my hands.





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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That shouldn't have taken a reconsideration submission. I'd think they'd have fixed it as a mistake, as if the label had originally said 1917-S.
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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They should've got it right the first time. How more obvious could it possibly be?



    Glad it got in the correct holder. It's a nice coin.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,744 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • JcldJcld Posts: 449 ✭✭✭
    Maybe I am using the wrong term, I think it was a reconsideration. When I first submitted, the coin came back as a simple 1918-S. I called and said that I think it was an overdate and was there a mistake or did they just not think it was an overdate. They said that it wasn't checked for the overdate and they would send a prepaid label and to send it back in. I am not sure why it failed the first time, but they took care of it fast and free of charge, so I am quite happy.
  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nobody's perfect. Kudos to PCGS.

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  • LoveMyLibertyLoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭


    Nice coin, nice result, and it's on CoinFacts to view

    in the correct catagory.
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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As blatantly obvious as it was/is...nevermind.



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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,932 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When you grade thousands of coins every day there can be mistakes. Glad that PCGS came through as they should.



    Way to go and congratulations are in order!!



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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 17,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah boy, If that coin had teeth, it would have bitten the PCGS grader! Oh well, at least you did get the recognition it should have gotten, right? Congrats.image

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,603 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are they paying shipping both ways?

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  • JcldJcld Posts: 449 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ajaan

    Are they paying shipping both ways?






    Yep.



  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭
    Nice looking coin. image



    Glad it all worked out.





    Mike
  • BIGAL2749BIGAL2749 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭✭
    What about the naïve, young, or inexperienced who sends it in to PCGS and then sells it not knowing it was an overdate.

    They paid the experts to evaluate what they had.
  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations!
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  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Jcld

    Maybe I am using the wrong term, I think it was a reconsideration. When I first submitted, the coin came back as a simple 1918-S. I called and said that I think it was an overdate and was there a mistake or did they just not think it was an overdate. They said that it wasn't checked for the overdate and they would send a prepaid label and to send it back in. I am not sure why it failed the first time, but they took care of it fast and free of charge, so I am quite happy.




    Wrong term. It was a "mechanical error" PCGS fixed, not a reconsideration.



    I never doubted the mistake would be corrected.

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  • AhrensdadAhrensdad Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    Congrats, nice coin.
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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice score and great variety!
  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I might have missed the story. Did you buy it in a normal slab and discover it that way? Sweet by the way!!
  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: AUandAG
    When you grade thousands of coins every day there can be mistakes. Glad that PCGS came through as they should.

    Way to go and congratulations are in order!!

    bobimage


    I totally agree (if there's only one grader).

    But three graders saw it as just a 1918-s the first time???

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  • JcldJcld Posts: 449 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Wabbit2313



    I might have missed the story. Did you buy it in a normal slab and discover it that way? Sweet by the way!!






    The short version is I found this in an old Whitman book from a hoard of coins that I inherited. I thought it was the overdate but having no experience with the SLQ, I asked for advice from the forum and then sent it in to PCGS to get evaluated. It came back as a normal 1918-S. When I called them for clarification they said that it wasn't checked for the overdate and to send it back in. I did and the oversight was corrected. But for a time it was in a slab as a 1918-S. The difference in the value between a normal 1918-s and the overdate is pretty huge.



  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is the kind of stuff that turns "inherited coin" recipients into collectors. Good for you!
  • JcldJcld Posts: 449 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Wabbit2313



    This is the kind of stuff that turns "inherited coin" recipients into collectors. Good for you!




    Thanks



    I had been a casual collector of mostly wheat pennies and Morgans, but with this hoard of about 20k coins I am transitioning into a full on collector.



  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,836 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great to see this had the right ending

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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Jcld
    Maybe I am using the wrong term, I think it was a reconsideration. When I first submitted, the coin came back as a simple 1918-S. I called and said that I think it was an overdate and was there a mistake or did they just not think it was an overdate. They said that it wasn't checked for the overdate and they would send a prepaid label and to send it back in. I am not sure why it failed the first time, but they took care of it fast and free of charge, so I am quite happy.
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  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,721 ✭✭✭✭
    Sometimes a mistake will show the quality of who you are dealing with. PCGS stepped up and made it right, which is what you expect and hope for, and that says something about them.
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  • deefree49deefree49 Posts: 282 ✭✭✭
    Yipes! I missed this whole thing about them missing it the first time. I kept looking on the Q & A forum for the result.



    Well in any case, Congrats!! I thought it was a VF and I don't even know what about what. Just very happy for you that it worked out!



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  • ebaybuyerebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭
    kudos to PCGS for the way it was handled, impressive that it was a "guff-free" experience
    regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats as I've caught many full heads they missed but never an over date... Wow! image
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations ... glad it worked out. I was sure it would when I saw your original post...

    PCGS is good about these things. Cheers, RickO
  • NapNap Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Jcld


    I had been a casual collector of mostly wheat pennies and Morgans, but with this hoard of about 20k coins I am transitioning into a full on collector.



    That's no typical "grandpa's purse", that's quite an accumulation. Should be lots of fun to go through all of that
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