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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 5293358, member: 77639&quot;]I like to look occasionally at the shared orders on the PCGS website (see link below) to see what’s being graded and what the grades and turn-around time are.&nbsp; Just took a look.&nbsp; There are 3077 submissions listed, and you can look at 100 at a time (31 webpages).&nbsp; So, I looked at submissions randomly in the first few pages.&nbsp; 10 out of 12 were world coins, mostly Chinese.&nbsp; It occurred that maybe PCGS’s world sites may do an occasional data dump to the website server, which temporarily would make at least part of the list biased toward world coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; I then looked at submissions in the middle and end of the list.&nbsp; 6 out of 12 were world coins, again mostly Chinese.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it’s possible the entire list is temporarily loaded with world coins.&nbsp; And I admit my sampling was limited.&nbsp; But it seems world coins are on their way to becoming the dominant business of PCGS and presumably NGC as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect British and French coins as well as U.S.&nbsp; Raw coins still seem to dominate the offerings, including medium to high-end coins, of British and French dealers.&nbsp; However, I’ve noticed a trend over the last few years of increasing numbers of world dealers offering more slabbed coins for sale and at auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>This all makes sense.&nbsp; There are far more raw world coins worth grading than U.S. coins.&nbsp; And there are more new types being created at world mints than at the U.S. Mint.&nbsp; In addition, in some countries, particularly in Asia, the populace has more disposable wealth, so some of it is put into coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; PCGS and NGC have done a good job of providing grading services outside the U.S., including world grading centers and numerous world submission centers.&nbsp; More and more world collectors and dealers have come to trust the TPGs and see value in grading.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then there is the huge U.S. market for world coins too.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to know the gross income of the grading services from world coins versus U.S. coins.&nbsp; Doubt that info is released.&nbsp; But I would guess that both services see world coins as a bigger source of future income than U.S. coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p><br /></p><p>Link: <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/shared-orders" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/shared-orders" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/shared-orders</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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