Does certification number change if coin is sent in for variety identification?

Am thinking of sending in a PCGS-graded 1865 two cent for variety identification and was wondering if the cert. no. changes when the coin is put in new slab with new label. Coin has a green CAC sticker. My understanding is that if you have a picture of a slab with a CAC sticker and coin is put in new slab with same cert. no. that CAC will automatically sticker the new slab (for a fee, of course). But if the cert. no. changes, CAC would have to re-evaluate the coin.

Cal

 

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What was the answer you received when you asked PCGS?

 

Guess I'll have to call PCGS. Tried an email but didn't hear back.

Cal

 

Yes it changes,but you can include the old label with the CAC submission with a note about how you had it attributed and it's the same coin

 

OK. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the info. Cal

 

I would be surprised if they would re-bean it without a re-evaluation in that case. Besides if you send it back in to the TPG in the slab, you would get the old label back. If you crack it out and send it in you will have to pay for a regrading as well as for the attribution.

 

They reevaluate everything they get each time and it is the full price, but have never had a coin not re-bean that way. Same method works for crossovers. If nothing else helps them keep their pop report more accurate

PCGS has always returned the labels to me including cross over labels, NGC hasn't.

With shipping and handling it's always just been cheaper for me to either do a crack out in which case I have the label or do regrading. Its a marginal cost difference between reholder and just having it regraded all together anyway

 

My problem is that I'm having a LOT of coins reholdered so that I can have the variety attribution added.
Most are PCGS coins.
Add the cost of reholdering ($12) to variety attributing ($18) plus S&H ($31.45) and the cost is already $61.45.
And of course there was the initial cost of the coin.

So I balk at the re-beaning price ($17?) plus the S&H involved.
Hopefully I could get a dealer to submit to CAC for no "handling" fee; I know some dealers well enough that they probably wouldn't charge me for that.
Fortunately I don't have many coins already "beaned" so I can stand to live without this extra.

 

$13.50 for coins under 10k. The re-sticker is cheaper but the cert has to be the same