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When does PCGS put coins reverse-in-front?

KimcheeKimchee Posts: 301
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I just paid $49.95 to renew my PCGS membership as I plan on submitting about 10-12 coins for crossover. Is there any criteria PCGS uses to decide when they put a coin's reverse showing on the front of a PCGS slab? Can it be requested? Reason I ask is because half of those I'll be submitting for crossover have reverse-only or reverse-mostly toning.

Sean
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

-Mark Twain

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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,010 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Request it. They usually honor them.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    just write what you want them to do right on the submisiion form, and highlight it, star it, make arrows pointing to it, etc. anything to grab their attention
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,924 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The best way to have the "other side of the coin" show
    is to write on the submission flip 'REVERSE UP"

    That's the most effective way to do it, I've found......
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • KimcheeKimchee Posts: 301
    These are already in other slabs, so I'll add it on the form or paper-clip a short letter (most likely both) image Thanks!

    sean
    Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

    -Mark Twain
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Black sharpie on the reverse of the coin "THIS SIDE UP" ought to work. image
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • ModernCrapNutModernCrapNut Posts: 2,086 ✭
    Put a little green sticker on the side you want up and a big red sticker on the other side.


    image
  • KimcheeKimchee Posts: 301
    or a razor blade image
    Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

    -Mark Twain
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When they make a mechanical error.
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    OT, but yes do a sharpie, just like in the hospital. I was gettting some hardware removed and I had to mark my shoulder that the surgeon was to remove a screw. The other shoulder had no scars or other tell that it had something foreign inside of it.

    Scary though when they look at your x-rays backwards before b4 they gas/drug you out....


  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,811 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Put a little green sticker on the side you want up and a big red sticker on the other side. >>



    Now that's funny. image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    what does "OT" mean?
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,060 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Request it. They usually honor them. >>



    image

    Just write it on the submission form.....

    TC71

    image
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>what does "OT" mean? >>



    Off Topic.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the reverse has especially nice color they mite do it at their choosing. I have had a number of them come back reverse up [some not worthy of it eitherIMO] without requesting it. Usually you just write on the form which line items you want holdered that way.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • jfoot13jfoot13 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭
    I would put the ones you wanted reverse up on a seperate submission form and mark it clearly reverse up
    If you can't swim you better stay in the boat.......
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Black sharpie on the reverse of the coin "THIS SIDE UP" ought to work. image >>




    image reminds me of operating room debacles.............cut off THIS finger!image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington

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