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Does PCGS still maintain grading Reference Sets?

georgiacop50georgiacop50 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭✭

Somebody told me they discarded that concept.

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  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Might be kind of difficult to do with rampant "grade inflation."

  • jtlee321jtlee321 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 29, 2018 3:10PM

    @RogerB said:
    Might be kind of difficult to do with rampant "grade inflation."

    Not really, you just shift everything up one spot. ;) Then when it's time to throttle back on the grades, just shift them back down. It's super simple really. :)

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No.
    They sold them off and have high resolution photos instead. There was a post on the web site at one time.

    -----Burton
    ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I imagine that grading sets for SOME series would be prohibitively expensive to assemble and use! Sure, anyone could probably assemble a Morgan, or Lincoln, or Mercury grading set. But Draped Bust coins? Flowing Hair? Fugio? Guess I'd rather they release those "into the wild" for collectors to have fun with!

    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The grading set coins I've seen have been the more common coins - Lincoln, Mercs, Barber, Morgan, Walker, etc.

    I put together 2 "sets", G4 through AU58 in Lincolns and Mercs.

    Would love to acquire scarcer types if anyone knows where to find them!

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I read quite some time ago that they disposed of the sets and use photographs. I know there are several forum members that assembled grading sets in their area of interest. They make a good reference point, but, as always, they represent opinions. Cheers, RickO

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,685 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For me the great thing about a reference grading set is that it helps you to keep your grading eye. Sometimes when I had been out on buying trips and had almost started to believe the inflated grades that I saw in some inventories, I’d come home and look at my collection. That got me back on an even keel.

    This was more than 15 years ago before “grade-flation” was getting to be really common.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There was a collector who had a virtually complete grading set of gold coins in PCGS holders (Good to MS-66). Two sets of the $3. He told me one of them was on display at Stack's in NY. I tried to point him to some buyers including the ANA but last I heard (over a year ago) he had no takers. It's a lot of money but it seems to me that the ANA could have used it for classes and it would possibly be a safe place to park some money. I've heard for years that the price of gold will go up - e v e n t u a l l y. :)

  • ScarsdaleCoinScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,319 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 30, 2018 5:48PM

    We have serveral. An original three cent set that we use as our standard and about 6 other sets (cent, Buffalo, dime, quarter, Morgan) which we loan out for clubs & collectors Etc to learn from.

    Jon Lerner - Scarsdale Coin - www.CoinHelp.com

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