Does it see odd to you that PCGS doesn't photogragh every coin during the grading process?
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Yes, it's more work, but it seems like it would help collectors who have concerns about grade level, and general authenticity.
That fly-by-night company named 'NGC' does. 
Anyway, seems weird to me. Would love to see them do this.
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No.
Any rise in grading fees would be a problem for me and possibly for others.
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Yes. It doesn't have to be a hi-res, tru-view quality pic either. Cell phone quality would do. Companies change their business processes all the time, at the end of the day I think it would be able to be done without increasing the price to customers. It might even help their quality control and would certainly help their counterfeit prevention measures (which surely are in progress).
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No it does not Seem Odd. I imagine they are under video 24/7 but to stop and take a picture would just add another bottleneck to the process. Wait times are discussed regularly here.
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Perhaps they do it in "batch mode."
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I don't see it as odd but I wish they would do it.
I don't buy that it would add another bottle neck to the grading process. It would take literally 5 seconds to put a coin under a camera and snap a non-fancy picture of it.
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A while ago I asked if PCGS should make Gold Shield mandatory like they do for classic World coins, and the resounding response from the forums was “no”. However, it seems this would be a good way for PCGS to do photos for every coin.
Could you imagine the poor soul that had to shoot every ASE in a monster box, 10 down only 490 to go, ugggggg....................
The post office is now taking images of every single piece of mail. No offense to USPS workers intended, but if those knuckleheads can do it, anyone can! (I stole that line from my buddy mail-carrier.)
I'm sure they are only scans. Coins look crappy when scanned.
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+1 for imaging every coin. Too many fakes out there. I am new to this and wont buy a coin online without a trueview to compare against sellers pics.
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Its simple you pay $10.00 they will take a nice picture of it. Some people don't think their coins are worth taking that picture for $10.00. Why take a picture of a coin if the owner does not want it taken. Its my coin if I want a picture taken I will tell them to do it. How about privacy?
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It really shouldn’t be optional IMO. All coins should be imaged (doesn’t have to be fancy). It protects the next buyer of the coin. At least they can verify that the coin basically matches the one in the PCGS archive. Photo matches, serial number matches, grade matches. This ain’t rocket science. It also helps the owner when they sell the coin, as it improves the buyer’s overall confidence in the transaction. Just my 2 cents!
Dave
Privacy is an interesting point. Some top collectors don't want their coins imaged.
On the pricing side, it might be worth asking how much would people pay extra for mandatory photos?
Just because they don't share them doesn't mean that they don't do it.
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I would like to see a picture. When I check the verification, I get the grade; but, I would to see a pic to at least see if it closely matches.
I wonder if this would slow down counterfeits.
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I think it would slow down counterfeits but it would also help if online auction sites automatically linked to cert verification for the particular coin, e.g. HA, eBay, Great Collections, etc. Not everyone takes the time to do a cert lookup.
Moderns are no big deal but all classics should be imaged.
PCGS does this for classic world coins by requiring Gold Shield, but many here didn’t want this for US coins when it was discussed before. Perhaps things are different now?
I predict it will happen in the next 12 months.
Lance.
I confirmed a suspicious NGC slab as fake about 5 years ago with the help of their imaging.
Good thing to have on pricier coins.
It basically already did for world stuff.
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It would be nice for coins valued over say $500. That’s a much smaller subset and the ones most likely to be counterfeited.
How can you tell one silver eagle from another? Same with the ten’s of thousands of Morgan’s graded below MS64?