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Cost of grading rolls at Pcgs

I have some rolls of Ike dollars that I would like graded. I remember seeing somewhere that you can submit rolls to Pcgs for grading and that you can specify you only want them encapsulated if they meet a certain grade. If some of them dont meet the grade, you could save money on grading. I cannot find any info on this on the pcgs site. Can anyone explain to me how this works if it still exists?Thanks in advance....

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  • Thats Bulk Grading, its only availble to dealers now! image
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,701 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Thats Bulk Grading, its only availble to dealers now! image >>



    You can send the rolls in to get graded. You just don't get a discount for quantity. You can stilll select a minimum grade you will accept.
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's a 100-coin minimum, but the price per coin drops way down... to like about half I think. One of these days I'm going to run across 5 rolls of Morgans that I really like and I'll finally take Bulk Grading for a test drive.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • taxbuster1040taxbuster1040 Posts: 352 ✭✭✭
    Ok... i am still confused.... So i have to have 100 coins? and i dont have to be a dealer? So lets say i have 100 ikes.... I send them in and say i only want the ms 65's graded.... and lets say there are 20 ms 65's in these coins... What would i pay pcgs to do this?
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275
    I think you need to have 60% (or some percentage close to this) of your coins that you submit to meet your "MS-65" level to qualify for "Bulk Grading Service".
    The other 25% (or smaller percentage) would also be graded for their respective grades (MS-63, MS-64, MS-66, etc.)
    Also, you can only have at most 4 dates/mintmarks. Any more combinations of this will not qualify.

    If you end up having only 20 of the 100 coins come back MS-65, then PCGS will charge you the regular grading fees for all 100 coins.
    I then believe that all coins below the MS-65 grade level will not be graded, but the coins that grade above MS-65 will grade, since the MS-65 grade will end up as the "min. grade" in your submission.

    Try to find old posts on this subject.
  • ajiaajia Posts: 5,403 ✭✭✭
    Ok... i am still confused.... So i have to have 100 coins? and i dont have to be a dealer?

    It used to be that you could send in coins for bulk grading if you had 100+ coins in the same denomination with up to 4 different dates.
    You could asign a minimum grade for the submission & only those meeting the grade would be charged a grading fee.
    The fee's would be 'prorated' by the grade assigned, the higher the grade-the higher the fee.
    A minimum number would have to make that grade or else ALL coins would be charged a rading fee.

    Recently PCGS announce that this service would only be availale to PCGS approved dealers. image


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