You may not know it, but you can see the orders that PCGS has in progress or recently completed. Go to www.pcgs.com/shared-orders/. About 3,200 orders are available for viewing. The orders are in 3 categories: Quality Check where only coin descriptions are available, Shipped or Delivered where coin descriptions and grades are available. If pictures are available, you can see those too. I look at the orders once in a great while. With the latest look, I was surprised that most of the orders were world coins. Of the 20 latest orders in the Shipped category, 15 were exclusively Chinese coins, 1 was Great Britain, 1 was Bulgaria, 1 was mixed Far East, 1 was mixed Asia, and 1 was about 10% US coins and the rest world coins. I’m not sure how US and world coins came to be on the same order. I skipped to the end (all Delivered category) and looked at the oldest 6 orders. They were all Chinese coins. I’m not sure what is the time span of 3,200 orders … maybe a few days, maybe a week or two. Anybody know how many orders PCGS gets per day? Could be determined by daily monitoring of listed orders. It would be the minimal number though because submitters can elect not to share their orders. The current predominance of world coins could be unusual. Maybe in a couple of weeks, it will be mostly US coins. Cal
Interesting. I have yet to deal with any of the TPG, so hadn't paid a lot of attention to what is available on their web sites. Thanks for the post.
I deal with NGC and have only done world submissions. I think with both companies expanding their world offices, we'll see more certified world coins. I also believe world coinage is seeing a surge in popularity. Like you mentioned, Asian, especially Chinese numismatics, is really hot right now as is Latin American climate from what I've seen.
Slabbed world coins (especially early 20th century and before) are a super deal vs US Classic and demand for them has been heating up. Everybody knows - When the market perceives one area overpriced / over promoted or tough to buy it right demand can move sideways into another area. The other factor is rare coin investment is becoming worldwide and not just in the US.
