Wish Me Luck ... NGC Top-Pop Crossover

Best of luck! If it doesn't cross you might try cracking it and submitting raw but some daring do would be required!

The price difference from NGC to PCGS is astounding for this piece. NGC pieces have averaged $299 at auction lately with PCGS pieces at $901 average.

Thanks everyone for the encouragement and kind words ... this coin is now packed up and ready to ship to PCGS tomorrow.

A few thoughts ...




Absolutely agree with that BH1964 ... I purchased this NGC lovely in Heritage auction #3053 for $297.50 (including buyers premium and shipping). The last PCGS example I was aware of sold for over $1100 about 6 months ago on E-Pray ... and I was sniped at the end by just a few dollars!

Sooo ... it will cost me $54.95 to attempt a PCGS crossover ... I valued the coin at $900 ... and with grading fees ($30), handling charge ($8) and return shipping ($16.95) that is the total. Not an inexpensive game to play indeed.

Lastly ... now wondering if this is a new DDO for 1942 ... check out my obverse photo above and note the apparent strong doubling around the entirety of Jefferson profile ... for sure prominent below the chin and above the nose.

Can you see that ... or are my own digital photos fooling me?

My CherryPickers Guide 5th Edition lists two 1942-P DDO ... but not one with doubling around the entirety of Jefferson profile.

Anyways ... that is a mystery to be sorted when I get the coin back in hand ... now she is packaged up and ready to send to PCGS.

Stay tuned ... in about a month or so I'll report the cross-over results.

Thanks again for the kind words.

David

I think your odds of getting it into a PCGS MS67FS slab are much better if you send it in raw. I don't pretend to understand PCGS thinking, but Bigfredd may have it right: they could be particularly reluctant to cross a coin which has a large market price difference in PCGS vs. NGC plastic.

I'll put on my "extremely cynical" hat for a moment and speculate that PCGS may also find it much more profitable to just refuse to cross a certain percentage of coins. They keep the fees and save the cost of physically slabbing the coin. They also avoid any potential risk of honoring the guarantee that a PCGS-graded coin will have.

Now I'll take off the cynical hat and just report my experience of sending in a 1914 Barber half dollar that was graded NGC PR-64. PCGS refused to cross the slabbed coin. I subsequently cracked that coin out of the original NGC slab, sent it in raw, and received a grade of PCGS PR-64 Cameo. Same coin, different result for slabbed vs. raw submission. Isolated event, or evidence of a general practice? (oops, the cynical hat came back on for just a moment!).

Anyway, good luck with the attempt, and please report the outcome!

Why did it cost that much for one coin? Did you get Express service or ask for an attribution? Attribution fees are refunded if it doesn't cross. Make sure that $24 is returned to you in the event it doesn't cross.

Another way to save a few bucks on postage is to go USPS 1st Class Insured which would run about $6 total (with $300 ins.) and includes signature confirmation.

Best of luck!

What a marketing gimmick these registry sets are.

Bump....
Nickelsearcher, did you get your coin back? Did your gamble pay off?

I suspect a crackout is the only possible chance.

Sorry...I truly am. As a numistist, this is, well, unbelievable. Grading is an art. Depends on which artist music you like to listen to.

IMHO, ANY coin should be able to stand on it's own virtue, regardless of which TPG has the name on the holder.