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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrCheeks, post: 1556584, member: 37257&quot;]So I sent a submission into PCGS recently and it included only 5 coins and the grades came back on Thursday night. One of the coins that I sent them was an 1882 $3 Gold piece that I picked up from the coin dealer that I do business with on a regular basis. PCGS did not grade the coin and it came back with &quot;questionable authenticity&quot;. I will admit I was a little more than annoyed about this, as I had looked at the coin and nothing about it ever struck me as being a fake. So I called PCGS today to ask them about the coin and what about it was not authentic. I don&#039;t think that this is something out of line, as this can be a valuable coin had it graded, and I spent a decent amount of money on it. So they tell me that they don&#039;t know what it was about the coin that wasn&#039;t authentic, but it wasn&#039;t and I should be satisfied with that answer. So I pressed the issue and the customer service rep tells me she&#039;ll call the grading manager and see what she can do to help me. So she gets on the phone and tells me that the grading manager said it&#039;s a common coin that comes through a lot and nobody would remember it. Wait, a common coin? They minted 1,500 of them 130 years ago!! Common is 8,774,220,000 D pennies that were minted in 2000, not 1,500 $3 Gold pieces from 1882!!!! I can&#039;t believe that the grading manager thinks my coin was a common one, I mean I do like PCGS and I have sent them plenty of coins with an average result, but cmon. I know it&#039;s not a common coin, but do you think I got that result because I&#039;m not a large company? Also, is it unreasonable to ask them what about the coin made them say it&#039;s not authentic?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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