PCGS Crossover

Call PCGS for an explanation. I'm curious what others have to say.

That's just PCGS' number assigned for the grading room. It means nothing when your coin DNC (Did Not Cross). The coin will be returned to you in it's original slab. It's happened to me before too. :(

I'm just curios .... Why would you want to have a coin re graded by PCGS? Is NGC inferior?

I wonder what it would grade if you sent it in raw?

Not saying there is any price fixing or elitism going on at PCGS but if they only have 1 graded MS65 they may be a little more thorough in the grading of the coin vs a common date coin with a pop of 500 and especially if you you sent it in their main competitors slab.

I used to work with a guy who had a slight mental imbalance and craved attention and had his mind set on something and no matter what you told him he would go on and on until someone agreed with him. One day he asked to look at his car. I told him what was wrong with it and he said that can't be what's wrong with it is part X that is wrong. He went and asked 10 other people most of whom knew very little about cars but even they sided with me. He came back at the end of the day and said "well Dan thinks it's part X" I said well go ahead and buy part X then.

What's the point of my story? Sometimes there is no getting through to some people when their (PCGS) mind is already made up and if you sent them a NGC MS66 CAC for crossover they might not even cross it at MS65.

I havent heard of a CAC coin not crossing and would have sent that one to them first if it was one of the ones they do to see what they think. But you are right some of it is elitism which goes for all of the TPGs on a cross over as they look for an excuse to say they grade harder.

PCGS does seem to get very conservative with their grading which is why they have the premium in the first place. You probably would have had a better shot with a raw coin, but on the flip slide it is was a weak 65 do you have the guts to get a 64 even on a resubmit to NGC if you dont get what you wanted from PCGS?

I would also go the CAC route. There are many dealers authorized to submit to CAC, you might look them up on the CAC website.

Elitism, crankiness, or maybe they have a quota system for performing crossovers. It's obviously easier and more profitable for them to "DNC" a coin than to crack it, slab it, and guarantee it.

My NGC PR64 Barber half received a DNC when I sent it in to PCGS. I later cracked it out and submitted it raw and they graded it PR-64CAM. I don't think it really became a higher-quality coin when I converted it into a raw submission.