I was looking through my Jefferson nickels with PCGS Trueviews, and comparing to Coinfacts, and I have several that have images listed. They're not top pop so they aren't the main images, but when you click more images, some of the MS-66 are mine. For example, the first MS-66 here https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1950-d-5c/images/4042 and here https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1949-d-5c/images/4038 are both my nickels. So that's cool. My question is, how common is that? The 1950-D has a population of 2373 in MS66.
I've found my coins via coinfacts as well I believe if you follow the 'more images' link, it automatically finds all applicable coins in their database to show you.
Ah ok, so maybe it shows all coins that have trueview images. It's very possible that many of those 2,373 MS-66 50D nickels do not.
I don't know how they decide what to put on Coinfacts, but it's certainly not all of them. I own at least one with TV that isn't on there. I recall that there was a gradeflation controversy years ago when PCGS purged all the Coinfacts images to erase the evidence (something about dealer crack-outs still showing there with lower grades). Some forum posts indicate that they show up in Coinfacts automatically if they are linked to a viewable registry set. It appears that both of yours are.
I done that at both pcgs and NGC in both cases any coins pictured in the registry sets will come up in the "more images" link
It used to be that all coins with TrueView images could be found on Coinfacts and then certain people, including Laura from Legend, convinced PCGS to change it where only a few images would be shown. When all were available, it was easier to find coins that upgraded or went from details to straight grade. It didn't look good for PCGS or certain dealers that specialized in upgrading coins, so that was the big factor in removing the photos.
That's what I recall as well. It appears to have happened around January 2019 https://www.cointalk.com/threads/rip-coinfacts.330643/. Not a good look for the infallible TPG. The biggest loss was losing images of lower grade coins to use as a guide in addition to Photograde, which in some cases is a bit useless (lower grade coins look better than higher ones). Key dates still have a variety of grades. The "rules" seem to be hard to decipher, because a lot of them for 1895-O 10c https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1895-o-10c/images/4807 are either in private registry sets or shown as not in any registry set. It could be that a set was upgraded, coin was sold, or switched to private and PCGS left the images.
This thread reminded me that it was high time I took a look for Coinfacts versions of coins I have purchased in 2024, and low-and-behold, I found some!! This is a new discovery for me as of today, even though I knew about the TrueView versions (with the PCGS background) since when I bought them. Felt like a little bit of a treasure hunt, (that's supposed to be a pirate)
