Why Bother Purchasing Canadian Coins If Not Graded By ICCS?

The grades au55 to ms62 is the toughest to grade consistently and accurately over time.

Brian at ICCS is 100 times more consistent than PCGS.

There are far more horror stories from the US TPG's than from ICCS.

Devlec...If you think some of your coins did not receive their proper grade you should probably re-summit them to ICCS for regrade. Then you will have a better assessment of the correct grade of you coins in question. If the coins were certified many years ago there has been some "grade creep" and possibly the coins will grade higher today. Good luck with whatever you decide.

I do, and always have, prefered Canadian (ICCS) grading methods, with the exception of red copper as mentioned by SPP. I believe that technical merits, not eye appeal, should determine grade. Savvy collectors already pay whatever they think a "pretty" example is worth, so why entrust PCGS to arbitrarily make that decision and wrap it up into the assigned grade?

That said, PCGS dwarfs ICCS in brand recognition in the US. For truly esoteric coins, the exposure and potential interest provided by a PCGS slab south of the border cannot be ignored when it is time to sell.

"Buy ICCS, re-slab PCGS" makes a lot of sense to me.

I live in the Chicago area and there is at least 1 show a year that NGC, PMG and PCGS show up at and will take your coins/banknotes at the show to be graded within a few days or mail them back to you in a month or so.
I like saving the postage and knowing that the company has the coins in their possession.
Does ICCS do this at Canadian shows?
If not, perhaps they should think about this as an opportunity.

Devlec....will you be submitting your coins to PCGS with the ICCS cert grade or will you crack them out first and submit them to PCGS raw?

Devlec has some really nice 5 cent coins. I have held some and just laughed at the grades on the pouches. We sat for an extended time over 2 days looking and comparing. There was a day that ICCS was the standard , but those days are gone with inconsistency. Dealers will tell you different due to inventory only.

Last year I sent in 7 coins to be graded by ICCS. I paid the extra 6 dollars for each coin to be Charlton Variety Reference as per their service request form states. All 7 coins were returned to me as regular coins, for one of the coins I added a picture from the Charlton Book with a small note explaining what page this coin could be found on. It was an 1891 C3 SL/SD a picture can be found in the 2013 and 2014 Charlton Book on page 57 has a nice picture of it. I did call and was told ICCS has the right to decided what goes on or not on the yellow slips to keep ICCS in good standings with collectors. On E-Bay ICCS has graded hanging number in small cents none of these coins are in Trends or a Charlton Book. It kind of funny all I wanted were my coins that were in the Charlton Book to be graded ICCS and I was denied. I guess ICCS has the right also to decide who is a collector and who is not and to them I'm a not.

Thanks for the tip on CCCS I'll have to give them a try