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Rest in Peace
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I had a half eagle slabbed by PCI as Ms-61 in one of the old green labels, and thought it was severely undergraded. Compared it to NGC 63's and 64's and it looked about the same or better.
Anyway, as some of you might remember, I sent this away around June 18. Still haven't gotten it back. He has to 'piggy back' it with other coins, but still, it shouldn't take SIX WEEKS. Any other better way to do this? And even then, I checked back about 2-3 weeks ago, and he said it had been sent in, so I don't know what's going on. Rrrrgh.
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Rest in Peace
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Not unusual for the grading services to take a month, especially when you consider mail in both directions. That way they can justify charging $30 for someone to look at a coin and put it in a 50¢ holder.
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Pillar of the Community
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What can slow "piggy backs" down significantly is if there are variety requests in the group. Adding VAM, FS, SNOW,etc. verifications can add weeks as so many are being processed and the rest of the order sits and waits. Some of the services have specific people or organizations for verification ,and this also adds to the time. Jim |
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It took about a month to grade coins from ANACS myself. You have to figure that the dealer has to get a minimum number of coins for submission (and to save on postage and insurance), so 6-8 weeks will be reasonable.
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Well I hope your patience (or lack thereof...  ) will be well rewarded with a HIGHER GRADE !!....  |
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Yeah eaglefoot, I'd be pretty mad if it came back 62 (big value jump from 62 TO 63 or worse....AU 58).
I just called and he said he didn't have it, said it tooked 3 weeks for the initial submission, so I guess it'll probably be around mid-late august. This is why I'm apprehensive about submitting a bunch of coins, I don't like parting with them for this long!
Any way I could speed this up?
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Bedrock of the Community
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there is no way to speed up the process of the grading company
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No I know that, the dealer just took forever to send it in, so I'm going to look around for other ways to submit.
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I assume you're just trying to avoid the membership fees from the top two TPG's? Otherwise, Join NGC or PCGS and send them in yourself. You should also be able to see if they've been graded yet and get the results if they have been. |
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Pillar of the Community
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If cost is not an issue, then you can submit it at the higher tier where the turnaround times are much faster than economy.
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Rest in Peace
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It's not the TPG waiting time that's the problem, it's the dealer submission time. In the future, I might join one of them if I get a big enough coin budget, or just submit five at a time. I don't like having too many out of my album, though : ( |
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If you join the ANA, you can send directly to NGC. |
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Posted 08/03/2008 3:25 pm
