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Message:: [QUOTE="Florida Keith, post: 8291117, member: 115627"]My first experience with PCGS for grading and certification will be my last ! First of all, it took 4 (FOUR) full months to get 4 coins processed (gold seal cost - the most expensive I believe). Two of the coins were fairly graded and slabbed. A third came back as counterfeit. All were provincial Chinese silver which have been on fire the past few years and there have been a ton of fakes made. However this third one I am 99% sure is genuine : the weight was perfect for a silver dollar of this province, the edge looks very legit, and it is definitely silver. Plus, I purchased it on Ebay a few years ago from a Los Angeles coin dealer that had over 20,000 transactions with over 99% positive feedback. Lastly, it came from him with a round holed tray tag with very faded ink indicating it was purchased in 1986 at a San Antonio coin show (long before counterfeits were made). I even enclosed this tag in the holder for PCGS to see. They did not even bother to return the tag ! The fourth coin also deemed counterfeit I think is also good - a 10 cent silver in AU has natural toning around the outer areas and the weight is .01 grams from minted new weight in the catalogs. The edge reeding looks rounded so not sure about it.[/QUOTE]