Pleasantly surprised by turnaround time.

Lakesammman · June 6, 2013 10:56AM

Receive 5-1-13, ship 6-6-13, coins from Sweden and Norway.

Was told at Central states by PCGS staff to expect 3 months!

JerseyJoe · June 6, 2013 11:25PM

I had similar. Received 5/9 shipped 6/4 collectors club 1925 Lithuania 1 centas
link

TwoKopeiki · June 7, 2013 12:06AM

It's great that some orders are coming back in 4 weeks, but I'm worried about the lack of consistency. I've heard the 3 months comment before, as well, and this just shows that PCGS is trying to make sure all dealers and most collectors pay the express fee.

Not wanting to face the worst case scenario, I just sent 5 coins in under Express Plus.

MilkmanDan · June 7, 2013 1:23AM

My recent world regular time was about 3 weeks. A recent world economy submission took over 4 months but it went in just before the first of the year which was probably the biggest backlog they had ever seen.

weresteve · June 7, 2013 4:38AM

World Econonmy turnaround times have stunk for quite a while, so I sent in a World Regular submission in along with a US Regular submission last month. The submissions were received on May 10th and the US Regular submission shipped on May 23rd ... still nothing on the World Regular submission as estimated turnaround times creep up.

coinlieutenant · June 7, 2013 11:49PM

Are you collecting darkside now?

Syracusian · June 8, 2013 10:39AM

To my knowledge, Steve is collecting primarily Darkside.

JerseyJoe, the link doesn't work for us who do not have your password, but I'm curious: you submitted an entire Economy submission with handling and return shipping fees for just one coin?

Roman is right, lack of consistency is the main characteristic. Pls remember that this group of graders of world coins, has become a travelling group, to Paris and to Hong Kong, once a month. It could have been worse. They are still looking for more local graders but apparently they haven't found any yet.

JerseyJoe · June 8, 2013 1:42PM

Sorry it looks like this and was submitted with free collectors club voucher.

Order #20703771 / Submission #123919
Line # Item # Cert # PCGS No. CoinDate Denomination Variety Country Grade
1 1 27765600 23320 1925 1C Lithuania MS67
1 2 27765601 23320 1925 1C Lithuania MS66
1 3 27765602 23320 1925 1C Lithuania MS66
1 4 27765603 23320 1925 1C Lithuania MS67
1 5 27765604 23320 1925 1C Lithuania MS67
1 6 27765605 23320 1925 1C Lithuania MS67
1 7 27765606 23320 1925 1C Lithuania MS66
1 8 27765607 23320 1925 1C Lithuania MS66
Total Items: 8
Date Received: 5/9/2013
Date Shipped: 6/4/2013
Order Status: Shipped
Share Order

JerseyJoe · June 8, 2013 1:45PM

This one was sent in also

Order #20703616 / Submission #123925
Line # Item # Cert # PCGS No. CoinDate Denomination Variety Country Grade
1 1 27785262 20020 (1935-1936) 1C Alaska RRC Bingle USA MS64
2 1 27785263 20021 (1935-1936) 5C Alaska RRC Bingle USA MS63
3 1 27785264 20022 (1935-1936) 10C Alaska RRC Bingle USA MS65
4 1 27785265 20023 (1935-1936) 25C Alaska RRC Bingle USA MS63
5 1 27785266 20024 (1935-1936) 50C Alaska RRC Bingle USA MS64
6 1 27785267 20025 (1935-1936) $1 Alaska RRC Bingle USA MS63
7 1 27785268 20026 (1935-1936) $5 Alaska RRC Bingle USA MS63
8 1 27785269 20027 (1935-1936) $10 Alaska RRC Bingle USA MS64
Total Items: 8
Date Received: 5/9/2013
Date Shipped: 6/3/2013
Order Status: Shipped
Share Order

Syracusian · June 8, 2013 3:49PM

Thanks.

The 8 free vouchers gave you the possibility to submit eight coins under the Regular Tier , which is up to $3000 in value a piece (instead of $300 in Economy) and with 15 business days as current turnaround given by PCGS. Normally, you'd pay $45 a piece for each coin plus handling and return shipping fees. So the vouchers, are worth $360 if you use them to the max. Economy submissions are different. I wonder if you have much more identical Lithuanian coins (from rolls?) and if you could have submitted them under bulk.

JerseyJoe · June 8, 2013 6:11PM

I thought about a bulk submission. I carefully looked thru the roll of centas and came up with about
20 that I felt were superior to the rest. These were a random 8 of those. I plan to send in the other
10-12 along with about 7 cross overs I bought in NGC slabs. I like the secure holders with the coin
imaged so you see it with certification verification.

weresteve · June 10, 2013 12:26AM

<< <i>Are you collecting darkside now? >>

I have been collecting darkside for quite some time ... just never really discussed it very much on the lightside message boards.

Basically a case of lackluster US coin designs, the difficulty of finding nice coins over the past few years and stupid asking prices for toned common date coins.

TwoKopeiki · June 11, 2013 1:25AM

I wonder which one will get grades posted first...

2 submissions: PCGS World Express and NGC Standard. Both delivered to respective TPG's yesterday (June 10th). Current advertised turnaround times are PCGS @ 8 business days and NGC @ 12 business days. Each submission contains 5 8 Reales coins with dates ranging from 1773 to 1820.

Edited on June 12th:

NGC logged the submission on the 10th of June (same day as received). PCGS still hasn't logged it in.

Edited on June 13th:

PCGS finally logged-in the submission as received today, the 13th...

Pleasantly surprised by turnaround time.

Comments