Grades In! Surprised to see a 64 on my Oak Tree Shilling.....
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Fun times!
So much for the QA department.
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<< <i>That's some nasty edge damage on the shilling to take it from round to octagonal.
Now that's pretty funny!! Lol!
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<< <i>You really think the grunts that work in QA, the majority of whom probably have no real knowledge outside of US coins, should lose their jobs over a simple holder SNAFU?
Crap happens. Mistakes are made. People learn. >>
Assuming it's an isolated incident and the person responsible isn't FUBAR, I would tend to agree that this would be a "bring in donuts for the office" offense. I assume that people responsible for holdering and reviewing submissions for these kinds of mistakes are evaluated on their accuracy, perhaps even to the extent of being periodically sabotaged with "control submissions".
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It happens and when it happens to you, one has to take a deep breath and be thankful its not something worse.
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Sure, it's funny in a sad kind of way. But PCGS should know about it.
Lance.
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Not even consecutive cert. numbers?
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They figured it out pretty quick and strongly urged me to return the coin for reholdering and I was given several free express gradings.
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<< <i>They once put my MS65RD 1909-S VDB into an MS67RD holder by mistake... increasing the street value by over $100k.
They figured it out pretty quick and strongly urged me to return the coin for reholdering and I was given several free express gradings. >>
You could have kept it and been very rich!
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I keep submitting CBHs with attributions, and PCGS still keeps screwing them up. What are we paying for?
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<< <i>While this is certainly amusing, it's also scary. For example, consider two 1892-O Morgans submitted together, assigned grades of 64 and 65, and then slabbed as 65 and 64. >>
exactly, an obvious mechanical error is one thing. but that mechanical error could just be one point difference in grade and nobody would ever know. And when someone submits that under the grading guarantee someday in the future PCGS could always just claim mechanical error and pay nothing. Very scary. The finalizer should be their very best grader.
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<< <i>While this is certainly amusing, it's also scary. For example, consider two 1892-O Morgans submitted together, assigned grades of 64 and 65, and then slabbed as 65 and 64. >>
I dunno, sounds like a wash...
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<< <i>While this is certainly amusing, it's also scary. For example, consider two 1892-O Morgans submitted together, assigned grades of 64 and 65, and then slabbed as 65 and 64. >>
exactly, an obvious mechanical error is one thing. but that mechanical error could just be one point difference in grade and nobody would ever know. And when someone submits that under the grading guarantee someday in the future PCGS could always just claim mechanical error and pay nothing. Very scary. The finalizer should be their very best grader. >>
Is mechanical error not covered by Secure+? I thought Secure+ guarantees a grade regardless. Then PCGS would be stuck with an inevitable buyback
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Shouldn't that now qualify as an Error Coin or should one say, Error Coins? The value of both just skyrocketed.
Same submission, 3 coins fell in between and they were correctly holdered
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BUT! There should be measures in place that make this an extremely rare occurrence, and the fact that we have two pairs of coins with similar mix-ups shows that this may be occuring on a regular basis.
Very bad stuff as
1) It undermines confidence in PCGS, and
2) This type of thing could cost someone a great deal of money if an unscrupulous individual new of the mixup and subsequently tried to market to an unsuspecting novice.
Of course they will have to triple grading and shipping fees to cover that. That should make CLCT revenue soar along with the stock. Yeah, this is a great idea!!!
illini, you should have told PCGS you already sold the MS67 S-VDB. LOL. I think Stewart said he'd pay $100k for any.
Lance.
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<< <i>While this is certainly amusing, it's also scary. For example, consider two 1892-O Morgans submitted together, assigned grades of 64 and 65, and then slabbed as 65 and 64. >>
I dunno, sounds like a wash... >>
Not when one coin is deserving of the 65 and the other is deserving of the 64. The 64'd coin gets in a mechanical error 65 holder and the 65 coin gets a 64 holder and is sent back for regrading, then there's potentially 2-65's in holders now. A big jump in price. Not good for the person who bought the 64 coin in the 65 holder.
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