PCGS Submissions

[trout]

Just sent  another 7 Canberra's ,  a couple of crowns with some other decimal silvers and some proclamation coins off to the plastics factory .
Will also send a bunch of decimals off next week.

The initial idea of Bag em Slab em then Flog em has gone down the toilet pretty much :dash1:
I have been keeping quite a few and buying more slabs as well, Damn you Feathers , you are a bad influence Mate

I have sold a few on eBay and Numisbid but I have spent most of the ill earned  gains on coins (which was the initial idea) but at the moment I am just doubling up on coins I already have raw with slabbed coins.

On the outset I started off "Cherry Picking" eBay to get gradable coins  That I already have  to sell so that I could add to my Sovereign collection ( Miniscule  as it is ) but I can't help myself from grabbing the extra nice coins and keeping them.
I dunno how you dealers can do this, It is heart wrenching for me to sell some coins :cray:
OK, I have had my "Sook" and feel better now

[ausjack]

As it's so bloody hard trying to find anything for you I'll make you a wooden box as well old mate just for ya ngc and odd size one's :good:

[trout]

Sent some of my 2014 coins in with my last submission, This is the results.
Huge Thank You goes to Emu for picking me out such a nice Mint set.
Thanks Mate :yahoo:

2014 20c MS67
2014 50c MS68
2014 $1  MS68
2014 $1  PR69DC

[Unicorn]

Wow, great scores Trout!

Feathers certainly plucked you out a good one!

[trout]

Wow, great scores Trout!

Feathers certainly plucked you out a good one!

Too right he did, getting better than MS67 coins from mint sets has become amazingly hard in the last few years :angel:

Feathers collection of slabbed one dollar coins is what got me interested in the whole PCGS/NGC venture in the first place.
Now all I have to do is get the other 300 odd coins done :dash1:

My Victoria Cross coin also came back but I only got a MS66 for that one :cray:

[trout]

Details are up on the PCGS site but NO images :cray:

[drakesterling]

If you didn't send them under Secure Plus, you won't get images.

Eric

[trout]

If you didn't send them under Secure Plus, you won't get images.

Eric

I haven't got my cc statement yet, But if that is the case I have just saved $80 :dance2::dance:
And we pay these guys to grade our coins :dash1:


2014 $1, DC(Proof)

PCGS #:525293
Mintage:
Metal Content:Silver

[trout]

How hard is it to get an Australian coin graded at MS70 or PR70 ?
I have had dozens of coins come back MS/PR 69 but none at 70.
What does it take to get that last1 point?

Is it that we cannot create an MS/PR70 coin at the Mint or is it that the TPG's are not confident enough in their grading skills to apply that grade ?

[purplepennyhunter]

We haven't got a 70. Emu or Eric might have some stats, it's not very easy but I think it's a lot about handling, if you're not careful with a coin say in a wedding set then you'll drop it back a point just by looking at it.

[trout]

We haven't got a 70. Emu or Eric might have some stats, it's not very easy but I think it's a lot about handling, if you're not careful with a coin say in a wedding set then you'll drop it back a point just by looking at it.

If that was the case My ugly mug would scare more than just one point from a coin :laugh2:

[wwwww]

How hard is it to get an Australian coin graded at MS70 or PR70 ?
I have had dozens of coins come back MS/PR 69 but none at 70.
What does it take to get that last1 point?

Is it that we cannot create an MS/PR70 coin at the Mint or is it that the TPG's are not confident enough in their grading skills to apply that grade ?

To make an MS70/PR70 you need a perfect coin. Getting a circulation coin in MS70 is probably impossible. Wedding set coins are particularly well made so they tend to grade higher and I do recall seeing some MS70s though I've never had any come back that high. For other issues, MS68 is already very scarce with MS69 being very rare.

PR70s exist but in my experience it's almost always tiny tone spots that knock decimal proofs down from the 70 grading. As a general rule, the older the set the more time it would have had for tone spots to form. It would take an exceptionally well preserved proof set to get a PR70 out of an older set but PR70s are rather common with brand new proof sets.

The exception being 1966 sets, as the coins were exposed to air, a clever American dealer took the coins out and sealed them in thin plastic holders. They're nearly impossible to find these days so except to pay $2000+ for one.

[Fr45h3R]

A few grades back today. Around 20 working days for the submission which is unexpected for economy.

http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/29626462.html
I was expecting MS64BN, the reverse let the coin down.

http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/29626467.html
Happy with this one, silver isn't my specialty, i was expecting lower.

http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/29626468.html
Expected MS63RB on this one. It's quite a red coin, and in MS64RB I'm happy with it.

http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/29626469.html
I didn't have high hopes for this one. MS62BN was my grade. The surfaces were nice but I felt the spotting might have dragged it down. Even better that it's RB. Mind you the eye appeal if you ignore the spots was ok.

-rob

[markn]

A few grades back today. Around 20 working days for the submission which is unexpected for economy.
-rob

Nice grades.  The PCGS secure plus images are a bit crappier than usual (not the coins, just the images).

[Fr45h3R]

The secure plus images are a lottery.
We were lucky to get 2 photos. I've seen them come back with just 1 side of the coins.
The submission was a shared one with coins from 3 people.
This was the pick of our lot
http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/29626465.html