Slabbed Coins

Hello,

I have a slabbed U.S. coin.
The slabbing obscured the coin's edge so that the reeded edge is not visible.
Is this normal?

 

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Most holders do hide the edge. Welcome and please tell us more about the coin you are looking at.

 

het take a picture and show us

 

Until about 4 years ago almost all the slabs hid the edge of the coins. NGC had an edge view slab back in 2002 that they basically never used, and then it was used for the lettered edge President dollars beginning in 2007. It was expanded to the other denominations and series in 2009. PCGS and ICG came out with an edge view slab for the dollars in 2007 but have not pushed or expanded it since then.

 

NGC now uses the edgeview holder on all coins which are submitted to them, PCGS uses them on most foreign submissions, I believe.

 

You're right PCGS does tend to use it on foreign submissions.

 

Thanks for the welcome and information, Idhair.
I'll be taking a photo of the coin with my webcam and posting it here as soon as possible.

 

Thanks for the reply, kaosleeroy108.
I'll be taking a photo of the coin with my webcam and posting the image here as soon as possible.

 

Thanks for the reply and information, Conder101.
I was looking at some slabbed coins in Google's image gallery and noticed that NGC-slabbed coins had their edges hidden, but the PCGS slabs allowed the edges to be viewed, so I was just wondering if slabbed coins ought to show their edges, especially as issues such as reeded or lettered edges are so important.
I'll be taking a photo of the coin I bought and posting it here for comments as soon as possible.

 

Thanks for the reply and information, phdunay.
The coin I bought is 1996 issued.
I'll be taking a photo of it with my webcam and posting it here as soon as possible.

 

Thanks!

Thanks for all the replies and information!
I'll be taking a photo of the coin I bought and posting it here as soon as possible.
Would appreciate some comments.
Thanks again.

 

And sometimes the edge view holder deceives.
Lance.

 

I remember reading somewhere that all submissions to the Paris office of PCGS are put in their holders with viewable edges. I have received a few coins from a Greece dealer I frequent, and the more recent one are all in these holders. Conder101, have you heard that or read that? Anyone else?

Edit: Added photo of the most recent European Coin I have received from a European dealer (likely slabbed in Paris).

 

I have a 1903 Morgan that I recieved in a money clip, I took it out, but it has little marks on the rim there the prongs used to be, do you think NGC would cover them us with their prongs? The marks are in exactly the correct place or would they do the right thing and details grade it

 

Details grade, the one Lance showed was bought back for their mistake if I remember correctly.

 

If the marks are very minor it might be graded cleanly. But chances are they're significant enough that you will get a details-grade. The TPG's are sensitive to jewelry mounting. A picture would help.

LindeDad, NGC wouldn't buy it back. But they agreed to reholder it at the same grade. (I had cracked it for the Dansco and discovered the rim ding.)

Begin rant...
I had hoped NGC would agree that the no-longer-hidden rim ding was significant enough to lower its grade from AU58, and their warranty would kick in. But they refused. I ended up keeping it. It's a scarce variety.

I have never been able to get NGC to invoke their grade guarantee. Not once. PCGS has agreed with me on a dozen or more coins I've submitted. Just last week I got a $1,000 check for a '13-S Lincoln that wasn't full red (color is guaranteed for copper acquired prior to 2010). But NGC stonewalls. I've been up and down the management ladder.

NGC did, however, buy back the counterfeit 1804 cent I returned to DLRC. But it was pretty black-and-white. End of rant.
Lance.

 

This is the coin

 

PCGS slabs have a translucent "rubber" gasket that holds the coin and you can not actually see the edge through these gaskets and infact if you look at them closely the gasket material often wraps around and also hides the rim of the coins as well. the only PCGS slabs that actually show the edge are the ones like brg5658 showed. And even those hide significantly more of the edge than the NGC edgeview slabs do.

I have heard that all the submissions to the PCGS Paris office get their edgeview slabs but I have no way to confirm that. (PCGS doesn't talk to me.)

 

I tried to get a decent photo of my American Silver Eagle coin but this is the best I can do:-

 

ebunny, there are many ways to take good pictures, but it takes practice and equipment, I will let other explain that to you if they wish. There is a free photo editing program that most of us here use called PhotoScape. It can be downloaded for free and you can enhance photos and crop in circles, good for coins.