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Pillar of the Community
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Perhaps there is a new PCGS grading guide, but the one I have was published in 2004. My take is that they didn't publish pictures of all the coins because they didn't want to commit themselves to rigid standards. It seems like it's best to keep most collectors guessing. I was just looking at the photos for grading Indian cents. It's interesting to note that I would agree with their photographic standards in the Fine and VF grades. Yet if you have ever shopped for a key date, like an 1877 Indian cent, the vast majority, but not quite all, won't have a full "LIBERTY" on them, even in VF-25 or 30. It would be nice for collectors if they would apply their standards to ALL of the coins and not just the common dates. As for publishing pictures of graded coins on the Web, there are loads of them on the "Coin Facts" website. This site is free and totally accessible to anyone who uses the Internet. This is an outstanding source of U.S. numismatic information and should a "favorite" for all U.S. coin collectors. Some of their pictures show some inconsistent grading standards, but buy in large they display the best of the PCGS product. I don't why they would open a new site with coin pictures on it in addition to "Coin Facts." |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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PCGS coinfacts is indeed a great site and resource. But it doesn't show an image for the coin in every grade category. Photograde does. I think using both is best as they complement one another. I am sure that they will at one point be merged into one site as the PCGS acquisition of coinfacts is consolidated. I am also sure that their price guides, sales and auction records and registry records will all be merged into one seamless tool.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1499 Posts |
PCGS founded "Coin Facts;" they didn't merge with it. It was a site that cost you about $110 a year to access before they made it free. I know because I was paying them for it from the time of its opening.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11898 Posts |
I am not generally aware of who owns what and if I made a mistake, thank you for correcting it. I was going on the fact that coinfacts has rebranded their site to PCGS coinfacts and upgraded and reorganized the content. I am sure more useful changes will come about in the future.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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