pcgs old green holders

Very pretty coins, WL. And congrats on the upgrades.

Phil takes great photos but his workload is unimaginable. Thousands of coins a day? OMG.

I shot 50 coins for Sheridan Downey for the Chicago ANA, the Roger Solomon selected rarities. And those 100 images took me 10 hours. I sometimes complain that Phil's pix trade-off luster for color but he must have enormous talent to manage that workload. I'm impressed!
Lance.

 

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Thanks Lance.

Yes, I can't imagine how he manages. Most private photographers I have heard from take a long time to set up and process shots (longer than I thought!).

When I shoot stuff with my iphone, I shoot about 30 shots in about 2 minutes, then do some post processing for about 5 minutes -- however I can only make pretty small photos -- and I struggle with focus. My stuff is pretty amateurish (how do you spell that anyway!). I hope to buy a real camera before Christmas.

In terms of trading off, yes it always seems like one has to trade off something -- color, luster, contrast -- plus you have the problem of guessing which of the many looks toned coins take on would the customer prefer (or which look would appeal to more of the masses).

 

Good point GDJMSP, I think i recall a web site or maybe it was a thread on a board that had photo and years for all the various PCGS slabs. It was interesting.

 

Are you referring to this?
http://sampleslabs.com/pcgs.html

 

The key question is, did you crack them out of the old holders first? Because that requires real guts. I just did that with an MS-64 dime from PCGS. Cracked it out and submitted it to NGC. Came back as "uncirculated stained." Just lost $100 on paper as a result. This is a pretty dicey game and involves serious downside if you crack and then submit. Crossing over has less risk but I think TPGs peek at the grades. My experience with crossing over and the high number of identical grades received makes me think that.

 

yes, that's the link on the PCGS history of slabs ... thanks for posting that!

no i didnt crack out the coins in advance. that's a gamble for sure.

 

That is a link to one site. Here is the one put together by Conder101 on the PGCS site.

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=222533&STARTPAGE=8

It has images of the reverse side as well as more dates.
http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=222533&STARTPAGE=8

 

Conder's history for the win.

 

Thanks for sharing the holder links.. always nice to see when holders were used...