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Rob41281Rob41281 Posts: 2,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
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a month and a half ago i took an 1859 indian head cent into my local dealer to have sent off to pcgs for grading. the dealer guessed it to be around a 64. so off it went. it came back in a BB for what i guess what be a liight cleaning, even tho the dealer nor me noticed it, it came back however, noted that it was a proof cent. so my question is what do i do next?

http://www.ebay.com/sch/rs8199/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,922 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Send it to Anacs if you want it in plastic.

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  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Send it to Anacs if you want it in plastic. >>

    Yep. It's ANACS time. Good luck.
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    If it is a very light cleaning, I'd send it back to PCGS. Sometimes you don't get the grade you want the first time, but will get it on the 2nd or 3rd time. If I recall, it took MrEureka seven tries to get his 3 legged buffalo holdered at the grade he wanted. Its called paying for the plastic.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    PCGS is not infallible. They screw up a lot more than many realize.

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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭


    << <i>PCGS is not infallible. They screw up a lot more than many realize.

    Russ, NCNE >>

    Is it a screw up or part of a profit plan?
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    That's very cynical. image

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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    If it was bagged by PCGS you cannot rely on the proof designation.
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Is it a screw up or part of a profit plan?

    That sounds like something I would have said, if I got here first.
  • jdcheersjdcheers Posts: 69
    Can you post a scan of the coin? Do you see cleaning lines? Did PCGS check the "cleaned" box as the reason for the no grade on the label that came back with the coin?
  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My thoughts are the same as nwcs in that if the coin was originally submitted with the number of the proof issue then the designation is meaningless. Look at the original form submitted by the dealer and check out the coin number he/she used in the submission.
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  • 1985ChicagoBears1985ChicagoBears Posts: 164
    Agree - send it ANACS, maybe NGC. Once PCGS rejects it, your chances reduce greatly. I had a beautiful 1880/79-O Morgan that looked like a MS64 DMPL to several people/dealers. Sent it to PCGS (several times), they would not even grade it. Sent it to NGC and got a MS63 PL grade.

  • WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    Forget about this submission and try again...grading is subjective.
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  • Rob41281Rob41281 Posts: 2,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ill be going in in a day or two to pick up the coin, hopefully then i can find out the exact reason it wasnt graded, and get some pics up. i didnt buy the coin as a proof or submit it as a proof, so i was a lil shocked when the dealer called to inform me that it was.

    http://www.ebay.com/sch/rs8199/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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