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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dannic113, post: 1430063, member: 35203&quot;]Agreed. It&#039;s a bulk submitters game. Unless you are of that status with PCGS it&#039;s too costly. Bulk submitters (those who regularly submit thousands of coins monthly throught the year, year after year) only pay like $5-10 per coin to submit. I think it takes something like one in 20-30 to get an 70. Unless you get lotto lucky and get alot of coins struck very early in the die&#039;s life and even then it&#039;s only like the first 5 before some die deterioration starts to show. Remember the bigger the coin and the softer the metal (.999 pure) the more that can go wrong take the 5oz ATB bullions some issues just can&#039;t grade 70 at all.</p><p>There&#039;s the rub. This was mentioned in another thread here on CT. They get a few 70 coins to make back their coin costs and grading fees and the rest get sold at discount because they are all profit and at around $54 for MS69 (standard west point or san fran issue) it&#039;s a healthy one. Problem is you can&#039;t get enough 70&#039;s with 5 or so sets. There is no guarantee the sets will grade match, and finally you have to pay like $17-20 per coin not the required $5-10 to make it work.</p><p>To answer your other question. If they do only sell them for a month then all but the very last coins will be first strike due to the time contraint of PCGS geting the coins before the 30th day and just FYI you have to pay $18 extra on top of the grading fee again unless you get that cost cut down on submission status.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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