OK Folks, please excuse the photos but I need to get these coins taken care of, It looks like DAD might of sneezed on the 55dd when he screwed it into a little plastic case. I need to join either NGC or PCGS (I guess) and send these in. Which is your preferred grader. Thanks (bottom coin=3cent piece )
Wow, that '55 DDO is great, too bad about the spots. The trime is nice too, hard to tell what it will grade with the purple lighting/angle. As for grading services, the 1955 DDO would probably sell easier in a PCGS slab.
At the very least an AU unless there's a problem we aren't seeing. I don't see civil war era trimes very often.
To receive direct submission privileges to either PCGS or NGC, you'll have to become a member of either company. However, in the case of the 55 DDO, you may wish to look into NCS (Numismatic Conservation Services), a service of NGC. Once your coin has passed through NCS, it will then be slabbed by NGC. Regardless, both NGC and PCGS are extremely well-respected among collectors and dealers, so if you decided to sell, I doubt you'd have any trouble. PCGS: https://www.pcgs.com/join NGC: https://www.ngccoin.com/join/ NCS: https://www.ngccoin.com/ncs-conservation/
Anyone done a conservation on a copper cent with black spots from either NGC or PCGS ? The pricing seems a gamble
If I were you, I'd highly recommend posing your question regarding PCGS/NCS as a separate thread. You'd probably receive a better answer that way @Dialupsux.
If I were you I'd just get it graded and forget the cleaning - conservation if you prefer but cleaning is what it is. Here's why. With spots like that what's gonna happen is the spots will still be there after cleaning - they'll just be a lighter color, or a color lighter than the rest of coin. End result, a coin that doesn't really look any better than it did to begin with and possibly worse. But it will at the least be obvious to anyone who knows coins that the coin was cleaned. Thus, leaving it alone is quite arguably the best option.
My biggest concern is that the spots don't grow. I don't really care that they are there but I don't want it to get worse
