I want to buy some coins but I notice some mark PCGS Registry coin. What is the PCGS Registry coin? Is the pcgs registry coin has more value than the exactly same pcgs grading coin which hasn't been registried on the PCGS website? thanks
No, the term "registry quality" or anything to do with "registry" in an items title is just a sales gimmick. They should at least refer to better grade coins, but sometimes not. Having a coin in the registry alone doesn't affect the value. The registry is just a way of cataloging what you own and compare it with other peoples collections.
It is a marketing term, but it implies that the grade is high enough for the Type to be competitive in the registry's (NGC / PCGS) point system. See here: http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/public_sets.aspx?sets=us http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/
Every coin that PCGS has given a clean grade to can be a "registry coin". If you see that in the description then it is purely marketing.
I have my coins registered bc its easy to look them up and keep track of them. I do not compete against other collectors, I'd get my doors blown off....
A few sellers actually use it to annotate a coin as the highest graded at PCGS for that date and mint mark.
I always chuckle to myself when I am looking through DLRC's auctions and see that a given coin is "Registry Quality". It stinks that my little MS63 or whatever isn't "Registry Quality" because it's not the $10K plus MS68.
Hmmm. Would this be a "Registry Coin"? Yes, they used to give these away when attending Set Registry Luncheon's at major Coin Shows. Once Silver started rising, these disappeared.
Any coin is a registry coin. One could technically have a registry set of heavily circulated coins, and that would be one's personal achievement. "Registry quality" is a way of promoting high end slabbed coins to gullible customers to foster competitive selling, and high end sales.
