I asked this earlier elsewhere and I haven’t gotten an answer yet. Will any of the grading services grade a fraction of a coin like a piece of eight that was cut post production?
You had 2 responses on the NGC forum! Don't be soo hasty to disregard people not responding to your question within seconds.
They were descriptions of what pieces of eight are. While I appreciate the replies and thanked the original respondent it didn’t answer my question. I already know what a piece of eight is.
I suppose if Grading Services grade and slab ancients that have test chops or found from a site like Pompeii, they will probably be glad to take your money and it will end up costing more than your piece 'o eight is worth, IMHO.
Try searching for Cob. I see them for sale but don't know how you would search for slabbed examples on NGC or PCGS...
I don't have the answer but the folks that work at NGC are pretty cool. I would just give them a call. The NGC forums are a bit slow. It takes a while for the right person to come along that knows the answer. Please let us know what you learn.
Perhaps this will help answer your question: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1818-Curac...nish-Colonial-8-Reales-NGC-VG10-/303502693935
That's a great example, but I wonder if the counterstamp on one side makes it its own denomination rather than merely a cut coin. I did a cursory search and wasn't able to find any good examples of graded cut coins. I wonder what types of cut coins would even be valuable enough to try to get them certified. I like cut coins on occasion, but at $10 this one would make no sense to get graded, even if the services would allow it...
Search Heritage for "8 reales cut" and you will see numerous examples graded by NGC. Assuming this is what you're talking about. https://coins.ha.com/c/search-resul...es+cut&limitTo=all&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-071316
Most of those look like they were counterstamped or cut to a specific denomination by a separate country, which might explain why they were eligible for certification. Some of the others were just irregular cob-type coins. Paging through a few dozen, I didn't see any which were just cut in half during ordinary usage, but I may have missed an example.
Thanks for the answers, guys. I was bidding on an ancient Roman coin with the idea that I would have slabbed it. But I didn't win. Glad to know there are cases where NGC does slab "cut" coins. Thanks again.
