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Posted 04/06/2011 12:17 pm
Eddiespin wrote:
Hi eddiespin.
I didn't characterize as you say this 1908-S slab as a mistake by PCGS. I simply wrote that this much exalted slabber isn't above making mistakes; citing the wrongly labeled 1909-S slab as an example.
I was recently going through a box of old coins, looking for some to put in an auction. I had long ago marked the 2x2's with my grade. Upon reassessment, I knocked one down a full grade, feeling I had previously made a mistake in judgment on that one. Can it be that the omnipotent, professional graders are above such mistakes?
Some years ago, I sat down with a top grader for ANACS at the FUN Show. I handed him two slabbed 1916-D dimes; one ANACS and one PCGS. Both were graded AG-3. The ANACS coin looked G-4 to me, and every dealer to whom I'd shown that coin agreed. It fit the ANACS G-4 description, perfectly. My question for the grader was, "Could this be reslabbed as a G-4?" He agreed that the ANACS coin was better than that in the PCGS holder; yet, both AG-3. When he said that the ANACS-slabbed dime was an "AG-3.8", I departed. I cracked out the coin and sold it to a dealer for G-4 money; then, over $100 above the AG price.
Making mistakes is human, but arrogant denial is less so, methinks. I'll likely never utilize ANACS services, again.
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ExoGuy, I don't know that I'd characterize that PCGS VG-10 as a "mistake."
ExoGuy, I don't know that I'd characterize that PCGS VG-10 as a "mistake."
Hi eddiespin.
I didn't characterize as you say this 1908-S slab as a mistake by PCGS. I simply wrote that this much exalted slabber isn't above making mistakes; citing the wrongly labeled 1909-S slab as an example.I was recently going through a box of old coins, looking for some to put in an auction. I had long ago marked the 2x2's with my grade. Upon reassessment, I knocked one down a full grade, feeling I had previously made a mistake in judgment on that one. Can it be that the omnipotent, professional graders are above such mistakes?
Some years ago, I sat down with a top grader for ANACS at the FUN Show. I handed him two slabbed 1916-D dimes; one ANACS and one PCGS. Both were graded AG-3. The ANACS coin looked G-4 to me, and every dealer to whom I'd shown that coin agreed. It fit the ANACS G-4 description, perfectly. My question for the grader was, "Could this be reslabbed as a G-4?" He agreed that the ANACS coin was better than that in the PCGS holder; yet, both AG-3. When he said that the ANACS-slabbed dime was an "AG-3.8", I departed. I cracked out the coin and sold it to a dealer for G-4 money; then, over $100 above the AG price.
Making mistakes is human, but arrogant denial is less so, methinks. I'll likely never utilize ANACS services, again.
