Need Grading On 1945 Silver Dollar

Like Andre I have coins I eventually want to have certified (never done it before). This coin is one of them. I have many PL-sets so I can only compare and assume PL-64, because well... it has more marks than the others.

On ICCS certification, Andre you said $2000 - for how many coins?

Marc

Hi Marc & Kurt


It look like that whe are only tree on this forum talking on that 1945 of mine :-))))).Anyway to andswer your question Marc I have reads many comment about ICCS Certification and I don't think that I will take this place as to grade my coins I have 300 Canadian dollar coins to be certified I have contacted CCCS Grading Service they have a better rate for certification I have included a link for you guy's to have a look,as to my 1945 I will take it tomorow to a coin dealer in Montreal to get a fix on it as to the grade of this coin.Also this is one comment about ICCS.


It is true that there have been some fake ICCS holders showing up on ebay (and elsewhere as well). ebay's policy is that they "don't allow" coins to be listed with a non-authorized 3rd party grading name (eg PCGS, NGC, ANACS, ICG and I think one other). Any coins in ICCS or other holders are considered raw, and it is against their new policy to put a numerical grade (eg MS-65) in the title on "raw" coins.

I think this mostly came about from many, many coins showing up in slabs of no name companies that severely overgrade their coins. These listings often included PCGS or NGC trend prices with them, which created a pretty bad situation for new collectors who weren't yet wise to the fact that some grading "companies" aren't respectable at all.

Although no holders are completely tamper proof, ICCS should do something more on their holders to make it harder to counterfeit them. As it stands now, it isn't hard for someone to cut open the flip, remove the inner sealed piece and certificate, then reseal in a new identical outer flip. I like that CCCS adds a hotstamp to their outer flip, so that if someone were to do this, they would need to use a real CCCS outer flip which would show evidence of being tampered with when it was cut and resealed.


Here the link:
http://www.canadiancoincertificatio...m/index2.php

Andre

Hi Marc

The comment about ICCS above was not from me it's a comment that I seen on a other site and this is not the first time that I read something like this about ICCS this is why I decided to go with CCCS it is a grading institute that are specialized in Canadian coins from what I can see on ther site,and this is the site that I did have an estimate for grading over 300 coins,as you say you like slabs they are nice by protecting coins with it's hard sealed plastic,the only problem with those is to find a place to stack them :-)))))Can you imagine the size of safety boxes in the bank that I would need to secure my coins once certified I would have to rent half of the bank safe :-)))))))).Also Marc have a look at this link very interesting stuff.
http://www.coinlink.com/Opinion/?p=9feed