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Will PCGS clean/preserve coins upon request?

jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,077 ✭✭✭✭✭
If so, what is the process/cost? I hear they try to remove milk spots off of ASE's when they are submitted for spot review. What do they do in that process and why isn't it considered cleaning?

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  • Wolf359Wolf359 Posts: 7,666 ✭✭✭
    Will PCGS clean/preserve coins upon request?

    No, of course not.

    I hear they try to remove milk spots off of ASE's when they are submitted for spot review

    If it turns in the holder, they are having to pay out on the guarantee. There is no perfect solution to "remove" milk spots as I understand it.

    What do they do in that process and why isn't it considered cleaning?

    Weren't these answers good enough for you?
  • I've never heard of them cleaning coins upon request, except for a single occurance that happened to me two years ago.

    I had sent out a batch of maybe 15 better date AU/BU Morgans--all nice, clean coins. No distracting blemishes. When I got them back, it literally looked like someone had sneezed on them, and not just little spittles of snot, I'm talkin' about big-honkin boogers. I mailed the coins back demanding they clean them up, and PCGS did so, free of charge.
  • No, but they do a great job on wallets.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have heard from a dealer that under certain circumstances they will conserve coins, but it is not an advertised service.


  • << <i>No, but they do a great job on wallets. >>



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  • ProofCollectionProofCollection Posts: 7,775 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I sent in a silver Ike recently. It was hazy and it came back without any haze and nice and shiny. I didn't ask for them to do this, they did it for me.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,500 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I sent in a silver Ike recently. It was hazy and it came back without any haze and nice and shiny. I didn't ask for them to do this, they did it for me. >>



    I am a little disturbed that they would clean your coin without your permission.

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  • I had a high dollar early commem in a PCGS slab that had developed a greenish haze in the right upper corner of the obverse and a speck of green. I sent it in on their guaranty because I thought it was PVC. The same coin was sent back bright and clean and with no more haze and green speck. Im guessing they simply diped it. They did this without asking me what I wanted done. I am glad they did what they did.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wouldn't it be a surprise if they did it to toned coins??? image Just joking ....well, maybe wishful thinking...image Cheers, RickO
  • Had a modern come back with a fingerprint. Sent it back and it returned without the fingerprint.
  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 8,028 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a 1895-O Morgan dollar on it's way back that I sent in for PVC removal...
    You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.
  • SteveSteve Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭
    Whenever I see a post like the one from the OP I immediately think: "Why didn't he just ask customer service?" Then I realize he really does NOT want to know what PCGS says, he wants to know what we posters THINK PCGS would do.
  • gtstanggtstang Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This sac I posted in this link had a area of toning when I sent it in that is no longer on the coin. It is very bright and looks much better in person than the pic shows.
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  • How about the SS Central America shipwreck coins? I am sure someone had to have cleaned them. Most of those coins are in PCGS holders. image

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