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PCGS grade "Prime Select?"

I've never heard of anyone using this kind of grade, "Prime Select."

The coin is a Spanish 1/2 Reale looks AU or so in the picture.
completed Ebay auction

Is there a complete scale for coins with this terminology? The only prime select I can recall is for grades of beef? image

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From the auction description:

    << <i>Third party graded by PCGS as PRIME SELECT. [...] A Virtually Uncirculated coin >>

    This coin does not have a numerical grade and "Prime Select" does not apear on the Lingo page but, from the auction description, I'm assuming it is marketing speak for AU.

    Is there a list of phrases/terms PCGS uses for non-numerical grades? They have used "Gem Proof" for the SS Central America Kellogg tribute slugs and "Deep Cameo Proof" for the SS Central America Baldwin tribute eagles. Any others?
  • BigE2BigE2 Posts: 1,037
    When I read the title of this thread I thought I was on the Steak Forum. image
  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I believe those are the grades given to bulk submission of shipwreck coins.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Looks like one of the coins sold through telemarketers.
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • sounds like a cut of beef.

    ...At Ruby Tuesdays you can enjoy our finest PRIME SELECT Ribeyes!
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Prime select is not listed in the PCGS coin glossary either... not sure where to find it.. PCGS search yielded zilch. Cheers, RickO
  • I was searching PCGS price guides a few weeks ago for this very coin. I couldn't find that any have been graded. I purchased one of these years ago not long after the find.
    Witty sig line currently under construction. Thank you for your patience.
  • Premium = Uncirculated

    Prime Choice = AU

    Choice = EF

    Select = VF

    Standard = Fine

    Commercial = VG

    Utility = Good

    Cutter = AG

    Canner = Fair-Poor
  • I learn something new everyday here at the boards. Thanks.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder if there are any "Prime Select First Strike" coins out there? image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,813 ✭✭✭✭✭
    USDA Choice?
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,813 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "First Steak"???????
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,813 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Whizzed Da Beef"????????
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608
    Where is the guy that wants to start his own grading service? Here is a niche for him. He can advertise that he grades coins that have been heated or been through fire, or even brand coins with a counterstamp for those who want to mark their coins. The market is wide open.

    How would you like your coin?

    Well done, with a Horseshoe counterstamp.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Premium = Uncirculated

    Prime Choice = AU

    Choice = EF

    Select = VF

    Standard = Fine

    Commercial = VG

    Utility = Good

    Cutter = AG

    Canner = Fair-Poor >>

    I see we have some butchers among us. image


  • << <i>

    << <i>Premium = Uncirculated

    Prime Choice = AU

    Choice = EF

    Select = VF

    Standard = Fine

    Commercial = VG

    Utility = Good

    Cutter = AG

    Canner = Fair-Poor >>

    I see we have some butchers among us. image >>





    No.... Just too much time on my hands, and the internet at my fingertips..... as well as google search


  • << <i>Where is the guy that wants to start his own grading service? Here is a niche for him. He can advertise that he grades coins that have been heated or been through fire, or even brand coins with a counterstamp for those who want to mark their coins. The market is wide open.

    How would you like your coin?

    Well done, with a Horseshoe counterstamp. >>





    I like that... Branding coins..... that way, if they're ever stolen, they can be identified........
  • Since in beef grading Prime is the absolute top grade Prime should be a 70. Select is two steps down so it would be about a 62. So I would net out a Prime Select (70/62) as about a MS-64. An AU is less than Unc (Standard) so an AU would grade as Commercial on the beef scale.


  • << <i>Since in beef grading Prime is the absolute top grade Prime should be a 70. Select is two steps down so it would be about a 62. So I would net out a Prime Select (70/62) as about a MS-64. An AU is less than Unc (Standard) so an AU would grade as Commercial on the beef scale. >>




    Which would be perfect for mass marketing, on TV and the NEWPAPERS, to the uneducated......
  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't know about you folks, but looking at that coin has made me HUNGRY!

    Where's the A-1 toning sauce -- er, I mean A-1 steak sauce?

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